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Stamps.com and TrueShip Partner to Offer a Powerful Ecommerce Shipping Solution
| Source: Stamps.com
LOS ANGELES, CA and SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - April 27, 2009) - Stamps.com®
(NASDAQ : STMP ), the leading provider of online postage
for shipping software
solutions, and TrueShip™, a leading shipping software developer for
small and mid-sized businesses, today announced that Stamps.com's PC
Postage® will be integrated into every download of TrueShip's ReadyShipper. The
integration enables printing of USPS shipping labels for both domestic and
international destinations via the Stamps.com API, greatly enhancing the
powerful ecommerce shipping solution already found in ReadyShipper. Users
do not need to go outside of ReadyShipper to buy postage, validate
addresses, print shipping labels, or void orders.
PC Postage is a software-based service that allows customers to use
existing PCs to calculate and print valid U.S. postage for letters,
packages and international mail without having to go to the Post Office.
Individuals, home offices and small businesses can manage their mailing and
shipping operations more efficiently and securely than with postage meters
or regular stamps. For businesses, Stamps.com is up to 80% cheaper than a
traditional postage meter and allows for easy tracking and reporting of
postage expenditures.
ReadyShipper is a turnkey solution that streamlines the shipping process.
It routes orders, creates shipping labels and packing lists, and works with
many popular ecommerce systems. ReadyShipper is a Mac® and PC compatible
system that is simple for the small business shipping a few packages a day
and robust enough to support the enterprise that ships thousands of
packages. The integration brings new levels of shipping automation to
Stamps.com account holders, incorporating PC Postage for both domestic and
international shipping and customs documentation.
ReadyShipper 4 Mac delivers enterprise-level shipping efficiency in a clean
and easy to use Apple inspired interface. The integration allows Stamps.com
to break into the Mac market and greatly expands Stamps.com's potential
market reach with available integrations for many major ecommerce, order
management and accounting systems including Amazon®, Network
Solutions®, ShopSite®, PayPal®, QuickBooks®, OrderMotion and more.
"By joining forces with TrueShip, we are excited to deliver our PC Postage
service to the large customer base that uses ReadyShipper," said Stamps.com
chief marketing officer Jim Bortnak. "As market leaders in our respective
areas, our combined strengths will deliver a professional product from
brands that people trust."
"We constantly seek new ways to drive growth for our customers and provide
meaningful solutions for small business consumers and this new offering
with Stamps.com made tremendous sense," said Alex Ljungberg, Director of
Product Development for TrueShip. "Through our new combined product, we are
making it easier than ever for small and mid-sized businesses to ship
packages professionally."
About Stamps.com and PhotoStamps
Stamps.com (NASDAQ : STMP ) is a leading provider of Internet-based postage
services. Stamps.com's online postage service enables small businesses, enterprises, advanced shippers and
consumers to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a PC,
printer and Internet connection, right from their home or office. The
Company targets its services to small businesses and home offices, and
currently has PC Postage partnerships with Avery Dennison, Microsoft, HP,
Office Depot, the U.S. Postal Service and others.
PhotoStamps is a patented
Stamps.com product that couples the technology of PC Postage with the
simplicity of a web-based image upload and order process. PhotoStamps is
currently available under authorization of the U.S. Postal Service for its
fourth phase market test with an authorization through May 16, 2009.
Customers may create full custom PhotoStamps with their own digital
photograph, or they may choose a licensed image from one of many
PhotoStamps collections such as NFL® or Collegiate. Since launching
PhotoStamps in May 2005, more than 70 million individual PhotoStamps have
been shipped to customers. Stamps.com currently has PhotoStamps
partnerships with Apple, Google/Picassa, HP/Snapfish, Costco, Adobe, and
others.
About TrueShip
TrueShip is a Scottsdale, Arizona, based company. TrueShip is committed to
delivering best of breed shipping software and product returns solutions
designed to compliment today's popular ecommerce, accounting and order
management systems.
Many businesses, both large and small, have difficulty assessing how their
business is impacted by poor shipping or fulfillment practices. Shipping
inefficiencies can eat away at the bottom line and have an adverse effect
on customer service.
The shipping solutions developed at TrueShip work with the software and
systems that are common to most businesses. With this approach to
streamlining the shipping processes, TrueShip delivers big business
functionality at a price any business can afford.
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of 1995: This release includes forward-looking statements about our
anticipated results and our PhotoStamps spend that involve risks and
uncertainties. Important factors, including the Company's ability to
complete and ship its products, maintain desirable economics for its
products and obtain or maintain regulatory approval, which could cause
actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements, are detailed in filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission made from time to time by STAMPS.COM, including its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K. STAMPS.COM undertakes no
obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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