be sure to add confirmation delievery note with it,so the package can be tracked.It only cost about .40 more
Actually, you can get free delivery confirmation when using USPS.com online (or any other online tie into to USPS...like stamps.com).
Rodney, you've said in other posts that you use stamps.com (with USPS). Can you explain exactly how that works? If you sign up with stamps.com do you still need to register for an account with USPS? Can you clear this up for me?
I can't remember the exact specifics when I signed up (it was years ago), but I do remember that I just went to the stamps.com website and signed up for their free trial (I think they gave me free postage as well).
You download this small piece of software for your computer and fill out some information about your shipping location. They handle the process of getting your a postage meter license (that allows you to print your own shipping from your location). So you don't have to have a usps.com account AND a stamps.com account.
You load up their software (see screenshot), and you type in (or copy and paste) the customers address, select a shipping method and weight and it calculates the postage for you. You can put a note on the outside of the label and you can even upload your logo so it shows up next to your return address.
You prepay for your postage, so when you click the PRINT button, it deducts the cost of the postage from your available balance (you can reprint the postage if your printer messes up for no extra cost).
When you print the postage, you have the option of including the customers email address so the customer gets notified of the shipment and delivery confirmation number (very handy feature).
The stamps.com software saves a history of all your past shipments so you can easily lookup a customer, reemail a delivery confirmation number, check the status of a delivery,etc
You can store frequently mailed addresses in your address book, you can print out regular "stamps" using the stamp labels that they sell (it's like a sheet of blank stamps with serial numbers so you can print out the exact postage amount you need from .01 to dollars).
You can set it so that you get an email when the packages are delivered to the recipients. At the end of the month they email your postage usage numbers for your records.
It has many of the features that the usps.com site has now (but didn't have previously), but to me it offers better organization (record keeping) and a better user interface. The difference is stamps.com has a monthly fee (like $15). They also have an upgraded service that interfaces with FedEx so you can do both USPS and FedEx from the same software.