OMG! Print your own postage online??

[SoupDragon]

Have I misunderstood this ? You can pay for and print your own postage "stamps" ??

Sounds genius, I hate trekking to the post office

Wahey!
That is so cool, but what happens if your printer jams or you print it onto the wrong thing...How would you get a refund?

I like it though.

Like having your very own franking machine.

Would worry about printer jams etc though, can't see any way that you could prove it and get your money back.

i'd love this too. Problem is it's usually parcels that I need to take to the PO and they still wouldn't fit in box.

Wouldn't it be great if you could hand your stamped parcels to the postman in the morning. We could do this when growig up in a Highland village, but here in the city I don't suppose the postman on foot would appreciate being laden down with my parcels!!

A very good idea!

Yes the company I occasionally work for has this, It's called Smart Stamp. You pay a fee each month of a few quick so you need to be sure you send quite a lot of mail. Then it's pay as you go - you order up a certain amount of pstage, say £50, then when you're running low you get a message and can re-book some more. You need a certain size of label - I don't think it prints directly onto an envelope - and you can add on your own logo. It's cool but I don't post enough to justify it.

(Sound like I work for Royal Mail, don't I? But I don't.)

A few quid. Hmm, should preview.

Our PO has a sack to put parcels in though - wouldn't have to queue.

Not sure about printer jams... I wonder if you can print it as many times as you like but the "stamp" has a unique number checked by the PO so you'd be caught out? Same as you would be if your item was heavier than you said?

No, Wordsmith, this is free. Bar the actualy postage cost.

And you can print onto envelope, lable or paper.

I need a parcel so I can try it out!!

Oh - must be something else then. I shall check it out.

I know the one you were talking about though - I looked at it thought "what a good idea" and then realised I'd need to post a lot. This one must be new.

Ah - it's a personal version of Smart Stamp. Cool! I'll give it a go as I have a special delivery parcel to send tomorrow!

It's made me more keen to start on my mammoth Ebay backlog!

it's not the queue in the PO that puts me off, just getting to the PO in the first place...

NOt sure they can solve that online, Tassis

Re printer jams... it says "If you have problems printing, you can re-print at no extra cost, by the end of the next working day after purchase" (I assume if you try using it more than once they send the men in big boots round, though)