Comments on: USPS Online Orders

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:57:47 +0000

If you leave a note for your carrier they **should** drop off an order form the next day. Many carriers keeps stamps with them so they can fill the orders the same day. If your carrier doesn’t wear a uniform, chances are that they are a Rural Carrier and as a Rural Carrier it is part of their jo to carry stamp stock just for that purpose.

By: J.

J. — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:57:53 +0000

If you use one of the Post Office’s “stamps by mail” forms to order stamps, they don’t charge you for postage. I don’t know where I got the original form I used to order by mail (for some reason, I don’t think I picked it up at the post office), but they send you a couple new forms for future use with your stamp orders. The mailing address on the order form I use is for a post office in downtown Chicago (a city with notoriously bad postal mail service).

By: Jenika

Jenika — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:53:49 +0000

*Considering how much shipping is for most things purchased online. Realized I didn’t word that in a way that most people not living in my head would understand.

By: Jenika

Jenika — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:50:30 +0000

That’s funny, because compared to the hassle of having to get to the post office, I always considered $1 flat rate (even if you get a couple hundred dollars worth of stamps) to be a pretty good deal, considering how much shipping is anyway.

I mean, I see your point, but what happened to thinking about things positively? XD

By: infmom

infmom — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:53:16 +0000

That’s really bizarre, given that the post office will happily send you as many Priority Mail boxes, customs envelopes and similar supplies as you want, for free. I can’t imagine that it costs less to ship a carton full of eBay branded Priority Mail boxes than it does a package of postage stamps.

By: ellipsisknits

ellipsisknits — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:07:54 +0000

Yup. Our post office got complaints about line times, *so they removed the clock from the lobby*

Luckily, you can buy stamps from reasonable vending machines.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:26:20 +0000

@Gwen – I guess that is one of the advantages of living in a small town. There are rarely more than 2 or 3 people in line. I use FedEx for a lot of stuff as well. I’ve been impressed with how well FedEx is catering to Internet users.

@Rachel – A few years ago, Costco was selling stamps for a penny less than their face value. I don’t know if they had a deal with the post office, but I imagine they were just selling them at a loss to try to get people in the habit of buying business supplies there.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:09:28 +0000

You can also buy stamps at many CVS stores.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:02:45 +0000

I will gladly pay the extra dollar. The locations of our post offices are by no means convient and it always seems that my blood pressure increases four fold when I walk into one. The lines are ridiculously long. Once, while waiting to send something overnight I was in line so long that the window for them to take it overnight went away. We do have these automated package shipping thing, but reading the screen seems to confuse people. I finally caved, openend my own FedEx account and send packages that way. They come to our building daily anyway and a home service is actually cheaper then the post office.