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Save Money when you Print Postage Online

By: Richard Palmer

Dymo, the company that makes those lovely label printers, has teamed up with Endicia to allow us all to print postage online from our PC's. This frees us from the need to stand in line at the local Post Office and offers the convenience of stamps on demand.

To print postage online, all one needs is a computer, an internet connection, a Dymo postage printer, and a subscription to purchase postage from the Endicia website. Truly, that's it. Couldn't be simpler. So why am I spending time typing this article? There is one little hook, and you won't find any small print to enlighten you in either the Dymo printer literature or on the Endicia website..

I purchased a Dymo Twin Turbo label printer and subscribed to the Endicia web site so I could purchase postage. Quick, easy, I was up and running in absolutely not time. I was relishing the fact that I no longer had to stand in line at my local Post Office to do my usual business and that I could do it all from my desk. Anyone who has spent a moment at the Post Office during the holidays can relate.

You will smugly enjoy your new found online postage printing prowess until the day comes you need to order more blank stamps. You will be forced to go to the Dymo or Endicia links only to find out that they want the outrageous price of $20.49 for 200 labels. That's over $.10 per stamp. Did you imagine when you purchased this little printer you were going to be paying an additional 25% for the luxury of printing from your desk??? I found this unconscionable. How could anyone justify ten cents for a single blank sticky label.

I investigated on the web. Goggled everything I could think of to find an alternate product. A generic product. A compatible product. Nothing. I could not believe that if I wanted more blank media I had to give up a $20 bill on top of the price of the postage itself. My margins are small enough without giving up another 25% to the cost of shipping.

I bought my second roll. For some reason it annoyed me even further. I just couldn't justify paying what is now actually $.51 per stamp just because I decided to walk down this technological path with Dymo. So, I rebelled. I researched the technical standards required to create these labels and decided that as my business grew and I consumed ever increasing quantities of these stamps, I could get a rapid return on my investment to purchase the dye and contract with a company that has the machinery already in place to manufacture these stamps for me.

After investing in the dye and manufacturing process to meet my own ends, I decided to share my savings with the rest of the world who I'm sure was having the same frustration as myself. With manufacturing costs, packaging, and offering free shipping, I can still sell these for less than 1/3 the cost that I had been paying.

We manufacture our stamps in rolls of 300 stamps per roll. If you do the math, that means we sell 33% more stamps for 50% less than our competition!!!!

So rest assured, that the spirit of competition, free enterprise, and the American Way is alive and well. For any of you who wish to print postage online, you now have an option beyond the usual and obvious purveyors of the online postage services.

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