Couple of years ago I joined stamps.com before Christmas. I got a free scale. The scale has no display. You need to connect it to the PC to use it. You get a bunch of stamps you can put in your printer and other stuff. The service costs $15.99 per month. This served me pretty well for shipping Christmas stuff and the shipping charges were very discounted. But after a few months I got to thinking I was loosing money since I didn't ship stuff very often. So I called to cancel. They talked me into a $9.99 monthly charge and I kep that. I think I lost a feature or two but whatever it was it was something I never need. So, I'm still good. Then I decided to cancel completely and called them back. They suggested I still use stamps.com with no monthly charge at all. I said ok. This way I could still have the addresses I had saved in the software. Couple of days ago I went to mail a small package weighing 1.5 oz. I think. It would have cost me about $5.60. The stamps.com rate was $1.69 I think. So I changed my plan they had put me on back to the $15.99 per month. Then I sent them an email telling this same story and that I wanted back on the $9.99 monthly charge plan. So, I'm back on that.
I just thought someone may want to use a shipping service with good rates and ship right from your house. Get a free scale also. If you want a better scale you can pay for it. Anyone looking at this would need to see what the initial sign-up is. Anyway, Christmas is coming and it may help some out. You can use USPS.com to ship from the house. The package I was going to ship the other day would have cost $5.90 with USPS.
Just in case anyone is interested. Sign up for the initial plan, get the scale then call them and get put on the $10 monthly rate (if you want). Hope this may help someone. If not, kiss m,,, I mean Merry Christmas. :D
PS edit: When I got the $0 per month plan I didn't realize I would be paying almost $6 for every package I could ship for under $2. If I had realized that I'd just have kept the $9.99 plan.
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jackknifeh
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jackknifeh
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Thats true. But the package I mailed today for $1.69 would have cost $5.90 using USPS.com. These were the cheapest prices I had from both sites. So if you send enough packages it's a good deal. Depends on need.mrphotoman wrote:or just go through usps.com and have no monthly charge and print the postage right off your printer.
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The point being that with the monthly plan, each individual package you ship would be significantly cheaper.mrphotoman wrote:or just go through usps.com and have no monthly charge and print the postage right off your printer.
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