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Woke up to this in my email today:
Dear ClickStamp® Customer,
This is a notice to inform you that, effective May 13 2007, Pitney Bowes will stop providing the ClickStamp® PC metering product and ClickStamp® PC metering product support. This decision is the result of our ongoing business review process and does not affect any of our other online product offerings. Please prepare to discontinue use of the ClickStamp® product prior to the May 13th termination date. No action is required to close your ClickStamp® account and any unused postage funds will be automatically refunded after May 13 2007 to your credit card on file. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
We are pleased to offer you special limited time offerings for two of our newest online mailing and shipping solutions that will provide you with the utmost value due to this change
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Funny, I had just switched to Endicia two days ago, and cleaned out my ClickStamp account, mainly because of Pitney Bowes pathetic customer service. I'm sure this in part because of the new UPSP rate increaste on 5/17. They hadn't even made programming changes for the flat rate boxes and I was told they had no plans to do so, so I'm sure all this new stuff was WAY over their heads.....
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Clickstamp... yeah I will miss it. What a great program for $4.99 a month.
Had shortcomings but filled my needs adequately.
They had announced, when they premiered Shipstream, that Clickstamp
was not getting anything new.
Shipstream is looking pretty good at $11.99 a month, 5 lb postage scale
included. Got a few things to check out, but that is probably what I will
go with. At least for the 2 month free trial.
AND I have to learn a new listing program, since SAPro is defunct.
Blackthorne isn't as big a learning curve as I thought it would be.
At least my taxes only took 3 days and I get a little refund. What
a week.
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What a week.
I've been referring to it as the perfect storm. LOL
SAPro bye-bye, taxes due, DH heart surgery, full auction load going the whole time ... got through all but the taxes and those will be finished tomorrow. I am sooo going to take a day off and do absolutely nothing ... one of these days.
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I am bummed. I can't financially justify spending $10 or more a month for a new service.
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I hated spending another $11.00 a month for Endicia, but the stealth postage, free delivery confirmation and the effortless ability to email customers with a shipping notice & confirmation # seem to be worth it. I'm feeling a lot better about it now.
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Originally Posted by MelBay
stealth postage, free delivery confirmation and the effortless ability to email customers with a shipping notice & confirmation #
Paypal does all that for free, plus you don't have to C&P the addresses.
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Paypal does all that for free, plus you don't have to C&P the addresses.
I know, but my web site customers are very reluctant to use PayPal. And I rarely eBay anymore.
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I'm going with Endicia * $15.95 a month...
It integrates with the new Seller Assistant Pro (Blackthorne Pro),
so I just (supposedly) click click print and done.
Worth the time savings and only $4 a month more than Slipstream
would have been.
I will miss Clickstamp. Couldn't beat it for the price.
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PayPal does sealth postage for free? I didn't know that.
To get stealth through Endicia, you will be paying $15.95/month.
http://www.endicia.com/endicia-usa/S...ductmatrix.cfm
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I'll miss Clickstamp too. I'll probably end up using PayPal or USPS Click & Ship. I tried Endicia recently & for me it just was not as intuitive to use as Clickstamp.