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Your Own Custom Photo Stamps
from:Picture Perfect PhotoStamps
If you haven't tried them yet, you have until the end of
May 2008 to take advantage of the PhotoStamps offered by
Stamps.com, a United States Postal Service-approved vendor of
online stamps and postage. Stamps.com has been market testing
the PhotoStamps concept since early in 2004, and launched the
most recent phase of the program in May 2007. Since they were
first available, more than 45,000,000 PhotoStamps have been
purchased!
What are PhotoStamps? As their name indicates, they are
authentic United States postage stamps depicting images chosen
by consumers from their own collections of personal photos, or
even from their own designs and artwork which have been
transferred to digital files. By ordering your own set of
PhotoStamps, you can add a very personal touch to all of your
mailings.
Add a stamp with a picture of your new baby on the birth
announcement, or stamps with pictures of the kids in their
Christmas outfits to your Christmas cards and packages. Put a
picture of your new home on your letters announcing that
you've moved, or if you have a business, add your logo to
a stamp for a bit of extra advertising. The possibilities are as
limitless as your imagination!
Once you've chosen your digital photo or created an image
file to hold your artwork or logo, you simply upload it to the
PhotoStamps site at www.photostamps.com. You'll be given a
choice of ten different border colors with which to enhance your
PhotoStamps' appearance, and a choice of denominations
(values) to place on your stamp. Your image will be resized to
fit the 1.1” square surface area of the photo stamp, after
you have used the site's customizing feature to zoom in on
it, rotate it, or move it to your liking.
You can upload your images as .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .tif., or .png
files from your Windows or Linux-based PC. But Mac users can
also get PhotoStamps, using .pct format. The only limitation is
that your file must be less than five megabytes. You can create
PhotoStamps for seven separate classes of mail from 26-cent
postcard stamps to 41-cent first class stamps to $4.60 stamps
for parcels.
Then enter your order, either for a standard sheet of twenty
photo stamp, or, if you do high volume mailings, custom rolls
with up to ten thousand stamps, so you can buy as many as you
think you can use with that particular image.
The cost of your PhotoStamps will depend on how many you order,
but you will pay the regular cost for the postage and usually
between five and ten dollars more for each sheet of twenty. The
more PhotoStamps you purchase the greater discount you will get
on each set of twenty. You will also have to pay for shipping on
your PhotoStamps, with normal, expedited, and rush shipping
available. Normal shipping will have your stamps to you in from
three to five business days.
You can even purchase PhotoStamps to give as gifts, because
their value will remain constant and there is no deadline by
which they must be used. The only precautions you should take if
you decide to start creating PhotoStamps is that you must get
yours from site approved, like photostamps.com is, by the United
States Postal Service; and that you should not submit an file
until you have studies the content restrictions agreement on the
PhotoStamps site.
About the author:
David Stargel is the owner of several web
businesses and enjoys writing articles about conducting business
on the web and how the internet is changing business. He has
over 25 years of sales and marketing experience. Get more
information regarding online postage.
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