Stamps.com

I have been a daily user since 2009, combining orders from Amazon, eBay, Etsy and my web store. As the STAMPS.COM company grew through acquisitions and mergers (e.g., Endicia), the stability of their technical platform has gone downhill. Every software update that I have installed over the past 2 years has had bugs, many of them serious. Getting to speak with a second tier technician takes at least 30 minutes and once the bugs are identified, you have to wait until the next software release for it to be fixed. Of course that next release is likely to have its own new bugs. Pathetic Quality Assurance and very frustrating as a user.

I probably was not careful and had a trial subscription or something, and apparently I was charged a lot every month. I learned about it only after I changed my credit card and stamps.com started to send me emails that they cannot charge the subscription, but what's unusual is that they still consider it me owning them money (normally they would not start subscription if it not pre-paid), and keep asking me to pay what "I own them". This is the first time seeing such weird interpretation of subscription service. This is very dangerous to deal with them, stay away!

Have tried getting in contact with them for pretty much a year to no avail. I have called multiple times to be told that they can't help and to try to call back another time. I have also been told multiple times that a supervisor would call me, but no luck. I have tried contacting through social media as well but they just direct you back to the toll free number. I did finally get a supervisor to call me but he called when I was driving and asked if he could call me back so that I had all of my notes in front of me. He set a time and never called. I have reached out multiple times since and still no luck. I even went as far a sending a letter to the CEO, but no luck there either.

The product is good overall, but have noticed a few issues and want to go over things with them to get corrected but can't seem to get anyone to reach out that knows what they are doing or care to assist.

Absolutely zero communication with Customer when trial period expires, and zero communication of monthly invoice and auto-billing. This vendor does not notify Customers so they can continue to charge payments without Customer knowledge.

While I find it convenient method to mail ie. Print my own stamps and send my own smaller packages, the service does not save me any money. The only true part of their add is "never go to the post office again". Past that the 1st class stamps presently are $. 50 which you can print yourself. I print on sheet of 25 so I pay $12.50 for 25 stamps. The paper to print the stamps must be purchased from stamps.com. I forget the cost/sheet but its not really inexpensive. Plus to use the stamps.com service is $17.99/month. You have to use a lot of $. 50 stamps (saving $. 05/stamp) to make up the difference in the cost of the service + the cost of supplies etc. I guess you can say I save time going to the post office and the gas spent doing so, but the service would still be the more expensive for us. The convenience is the only real winning part.

My company ships a lot of media mail (music books). With the USPS, we have to take the packages to the local post office. They won't allow you to print media mail labels on their USPS website. However, with Stamps.com, we are able to print the labels and the postal carrier picks up the package and scans it on the spot. This saves us a lot of time and money constantly driving back and forth and standing in line! The other Stamps.com options are great. I recommended Stamps.com to everyone we know. We have added a photo below and blocked out the owner's address for privacy.

Their system is very buggy... it will work for a few months on one computer, then suddenly stops working... they'll advise to change to a different browser, or state they no longer support Apple computers (thanks for that, we don't all have PCs here at our office); often their website is down. Half the time they want us to update the downloaded program, the other half the time they want us to log on and only use it online. Their monthly fees are way too high for small businesses, and their staff is hard to reach (to put it politely). If you can find another service, DO SO!

I have been using Stamps.com for many years now. It's a tremendous efficiency rather that stand in line at the post office every time I need to mail a package or buy stamps. The website takes a little bit of work to master. Over the years I have made a ton of errors which resulted in charges, however, Stamps.com is batting 1000% in processing my request for refunds. I think their form could be a little easier, like including a drop down menu with the label number already there, but on the whole, it works very well.

I am an attorney with a solo practice who was totally fed up with our local post office where I used to spend far too many hours waiting in line.Stamps.com allows me to produce professionally appearing stamped envelopes in seconds and to replenish my stock of postage just by the click of a computer button. Over the years I have had many conversations with stamps.com customer service people and have found them to be unfailingly knowledgeable and courteous. Stamps.com offers an ingenious, time-saving improvement to my work life. It is money well-spent!

We switched to Stamps.com years ago when I realized I spent way to much time in line at the local post office mailing certified mail, packages, etc. for our business. As an Administrative Assistant, I don't have that kind of time. I asked my supervisor to let me try Stamps.com and we've been hooked ever since. No more standing in line for stamps, or to mail anything! This is the best office tool I have and I'm not giving it up!