Now I'm the Post Master
Written: Apr 09 '00
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I thought about coughing up thirty or forty bucks when I first heard about online postage last July, but then I reconsidered, since it's only a short drive to my small rural post office and the lines are never really long. I also reasoned that like everything else on the internet, if I just waited a little someone would give the software away for free to generate traffic to their website.
Well, it looks like Stamps.com did me one better. My trial month is almost up and I've been trying to burn through the $20 worth of free postage they gave me along with their software and, so far, I've barely put a dent in it.
It was really easy to download and set up the software and I was printing out postage the same day. A week later my meter license showed up practically as an afterthought.
At this point I realize that it's probably overkill for someone like me to print out my own postage and now I only have a couple of days to decide whether to start paying $2 per month and a 10% bump on each stamp or cancel. In other words, I'm waffling. I don't really know what I'll do yet. I'll probably look around and see if someone else will give me a month trial period.
Finally, in roughly the same category, I'd like to ad that www.postage4free.com seems to be a scam, since I, like 117 other epinion members, never got any of the free stamped envelopes they promised.
www.dair3.com however, is for real. They will send an interesting selection of postcards anywhere in the world for free. Real hardcopy, bricks and mortar style postcards. This is good for me since most of my family members are computer illiterate and have no means for receiving e-mail. Most of dair3com's images tend toward weird new agey computer graphic glob creatures but I like their section on India because it includes some nice pictures of Radha-Krishna, Ganesh, Balarama and Shiva et al. Oh, and it's not totally free - half the postcard has your selected picture and the other half has an ad. So far it seems that the ad is just for their website. As of yet no strange pornographic or embarrassing ads have shown up. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Recommended:
Yes
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sarvopama
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Location: Alachua, Florida
Reviews written: 11
Trusted by: 13 members
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