by Lori Voth

Created on: June 07, 2009

Stamps.com Mailing Software: Is Free Membership Offer a Scam?

*Special Offer $80 Value

*$25 in postage

*$50 Digital Scale

*$5 Supplies Kit

*Free 4 Week Trial Membership

Have you seen the promotional advertisements for the above bonus offers? Are you familiar with Stamps.com?

You have possibly seen ads for this company online or in your postal mailbox or email folder, as they seem to be distributed both widely and frequently. Maybe you or someone you know has even been suckered by them.

Stamps.com is the "approved (USPS) licensed vendor" known for boasting its money and time saving Postage on Demand Do it Yourself PC Postage Printing Services. The Stamps.com, for $19.99/month offers postage printing capabilities directly from your home or office PC.

As the company loves so to advertise, members of Stamps.com have the opportunity to calculate and print their own postage. They can additionally generate professional looking address labels based on contact information they can enter fresh or otherwise import form MS Outlook or QuickBooks to name a few compatible organization management programs. Members can also receive discounts on Express and Priority Mail.

While these above mentioned aspects of the infamous Postage on Demand Service are undoubtedly enticing benefits of a Stamps.com membership, this apparent USPS affiliate does not present the whole story in their numerous pieces of advertising material.

While I'd be hesitant to call Stamps.com an outright scam, I warn fellow consumers to be weary of this company's promises. I can attest as a former member of this PC Postage Printing Company that everything is not all that it may seem. The exciting, too good to be true promotional offers are pretty much exactly that. Many of the promotional ads and product explanations (aka sales oriented "informative" website information) and FAQ section is extremely misleading.

Stamps.com may very well be a useful service for businesses who find themselves constantly going back and forth to the post office all day all week long, but unless you are planning to do a fairly enormous amount of PC postage printing the Stamps.com program is probably not worth it.

At the very least, if you have at any point considered taking advantage of this promotional free trial membership offer to join Stamps.com, I would encourage you to at least do some deep research on the company and service to obtain an accurate understanding of what your $19.99/month

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