Ferg Report post Posted February 14, 2013 Any of you who are printing your own USPS postage, read this carefully. Dymo owns Endicia, don't know when they acquired same. We decided to ship via USPS several years ago. Three years ago we began printing our own stamps that we bought from a third party company that was/is approved by the post office. They cost about $50 per 7000 stamp blanks, we use between 20,000 and 25,000 per year. Dymo Endicia charges about $55 for 200 stamp blanks, I don't need to do the math do I? We received an e-mail from Endicia today that they are no longer accepting the third party stamps, we have to get a new activation code each time we buy a roll of 200 stamps, put into the computer so they can check it's validity and then when you ask for release of the next 200 count roll you need to wait until they contact you with the activation code. During Christmas season we ship 700 to 1000 parcels per day. Have an idea how many we would ship with all this crap? The postage is higher and higher and they want to pull this on us. Seems to be the mentality of a number of people I could mention. Several third party stamp suppliers have already quit selling blanks for fear of having excessive inventory unable to get rid of. Sure does help the small business community. If you use these people, please let it be known you will not stand for this. Totally unacceptable !!!!!!! BTW: They did not contact us today, my wife seen it on FaceBook. The "Change" will be Monday. ferg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Art Report post Posted February 14, 2013 All I can say is Remember Pitney-Bowles and postage meters. Now THAT was a rip. At one point. I was paying PB so much that I went back to stamps. Still got $10 in the meter, would play hell finding it though. I use flat rate now and stamps for letters. Art Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
