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Not a bad offer and if Ben gets a spiff, that's great. However there are other offers out there. I think I saw one for 30 free and 1 month free. If you have TT already maybe you'll like that one... But TT is worth more than 10 if you don't have it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Actually you can't just print on plain paper or stickers, you have to use special labels just for stamps. The special labels have a pink band across the top (take a look at any package you may have that has a USPS printed postage label on it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Not every post office uses those pink band labels you are talking about. I am a clerk at the Student Post Office (Clemson University) and our meter strips are plain white labels. Pretty much if you can get it to stick on the package, you can (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) meter (like a Pitney Bowes)? Postage meters don't use the pink band labels because they don't have bar codes in them. USPS labels printed at the post office include the destination zip code in bar code format. The internet postage labels (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Actually Rob you can print these on plain paper, or plain envelopes, #9, #10, #11, etc. The software has a built in address checker. It does print a barcode and the zip plus four for the corrected address. It has templates for various Avery (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Yes, if anyone signs up with my referral link I get $5 in my postage account. What is TT? Ben (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) TurboTax... it was in your blurbage I think. (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Right. I just didn't catch your abbreviation. Ben (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:38C70E39.9A2939...ger.net... (...) I've been told by my local PO that postal customers cannot leave USPS Priority Mail packages at their mailbox for pickup, they must drop them off at the PO. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Robert, I've been using Avery 5163 Shipping Labels (all white) and an HP 4 LaserJet to print my Stamps.com postage for about two months (+/- 75 packages) without any problems... A satisfied Stamps.com customer, Gene Rodriguez III (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Actually this is true only if it weighs 1 pound or more. If it is less than 1 pound you can leave it in the box for pickup or drop it in a blue street corner box. For me the time savings is waiting in line at the post office to buy stamps. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) I have tried several setting and templates and I cannot get it to print correctly on the Priority Mail labels. The problem is that the postage ends up in the 1" blue section at the top of the label. So I guess you will have to use plain white (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Yeah, I've got to do that in the near future too. I burned myself pretty significantly in my recent parts sale. :( <rant>I also found out that it costs MORE for me to ship a SMALLER package within Canada than it does to ship to ANYWHERE in the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) This annoys me every time I mail to someone in Canada. The even sillier thing is that for packages under 100g it's cheapest to Europe/Asia ($2.30), then to teh US ($3.85), then within Canada ($4.15). Kevin (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) How much are you paying for those labels and do you actually save money on postage in the end or do you figure you're saving money by saving time? (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Mike, It's all about time for me. The labels run a couple of three cents apiece, but I can be in and out of PO in about 30 seconds with a tub full of pre-paid packages vs. five or ten minutes waiting in line, getting everything weighed, etc. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) I hear you. As I begin work on my own database-driven parts sale site I am thinking more and more that cutting time at the shipping end is going to seem just as important as automating ordering. (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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