Whether you have a wedding to announce, a new baby in the family or a photogenic pet, PhotoStamps are a fun and easy way to add a personal touch to everything you send in the mail! You can also give them as unforgettably unique gifts, or keep them and frame them so you and your family can treasure your PhotoStamps for years to come!
"Perfect for weddings" is the claim, and how true. What a cool way to personalize your invitations--the stamps can feature you and your fiancee'! The USPS has authorized Stamps.com to offer PhotoStamps again. After a trial last year, Stamps.com has been authorized to offer personalized stamps for your letters. According to Stamps.com:
PhotoStamps are a new form of postage that allows customers to include their favorite digital photographs, designs or images on valid US Postal Service postage. Customers design state-of-the-art, professional-looking postage by simply uploading pictures from existing image files, digital photographs, and original graphics. An intuitive interface allows users to flip, rotate, and zoom in and out of their images, as well as add colored borders to create harmonized themes.
You set up your account, upload a digital photo, tweak it if you want to, and order your stamps in sheets of 20. There is an additional charge for the personalization, which works out to cost about 75-cents for a 37-cent stamp (the stamps are available in other values as well). The price goes down with each additional sheet of stamps you buy. Remember that your invitations will probably require more than 37-cents to mail, so you may be buying a number of sheets. It would be a good idea to weigh a complete invitation at the post office to figure the correct postage. The average invitation costs around $1.00 each to mail, so your postage bill for 100 invitations would be approx. $150 for PhotoStamps, vs. around $100 for regular postage.
This is probably not for the couple on a tight budget, but if you have a little room to personalize your invitations, PhotoStamps are an idea to consider. Get started today!