Print Your Own Stamps (Legally)
Monday May 5, 2008
If you run a small business, you inevitably spend a great deal of your time in the post office. Pitney Bowes, a manufacturer of corporate mailroom equipment, has a way to make mass-mailings easier as well as more noticeable. Its StampExpressions printing kit allows you to design custom stamps with (almost) any image you like on it, and then print out the image and stamp to personalize mass mailings, brochures, or whatever else your business mails out. The printer costs $159.99 and comes with a 5-lb scale and a label roll. There is no fee and no commitment to use StampExpressions, and it could be a great way to get customers to pay attention to your mail.
Even if you don't run a business, you can have fun with printing your own stamps--or, rather, letting Pitney Bowes print them for you. With StampsExpression Personal Postage, you upload whatever image you want to appear on your stamps, and they do the rest. It's a fun way to send out those Mother's Day cards!
Comments
So zazzle bought these guys out and killed the feature/product to get more business? The links no longer work and the only way to get custom stamps is to go through zazzle now. Worthless. Still does not tell me how to print my own stamps. Legally.
When did it become impossible to set an envelope up on our printers and print a single first-class stamp? Stamps.com requires a monthly fee now? USPS’s Click n Ship does everything except (guess what) print first-class stamps, once again on envelopes. It is extremely rare I need stamps; I’m familiar with the internet technology; needed two stamps and do you think I could print two stamps on two envelopes; nope! Online Banking made mailing bill payments out, obsolete. I don’t need a book of stamps and I shouldn’t have to drive to the post office to buy stamps; not with the internet technology and printers at our disposal today.