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Article: Online stamp sellers have sticky task
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2000
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Online stamp sellers have sticky task
Caught between old-style letter-writers and users of e-bills, they
lose money
Associated Press
Saturday, July 8, 2000
New York -- Online postage may help small business owners lick the
annoyance of waiting at the post office to buy stamps, but adoption
of the new technology has been slow, and the ballyhooed industry has
yet to deliver a profit.
So far, online postage companies have racked up multimillion-
dollar losses, failing to persuade enough people to pay extra for the
ability to create prepaid envelopes using a computer and a printer.
Those who regularly use their PCs as virtual postage meters say
the process is not without its own aggravations, ...