Stamps.com was asked today by the U.S. Postal Service to conclude its market test and to cease taking customer orders for PhotoStamps(TM) as of October 1, 2004 "We are disappointed with this outcome as it puts the PhotoStamps program into a state of limbo as the holiday season approaches, however we acknowledge the Postal Service's request to evaluate the program before additional orders are taken," said Stamps.com president and CEO Ken McBride.
An estimated 100,000 sheets, or 2,000,000 individual PhotoStamps, ordered during the approximately seven weeks of the market test which began with the public launch on August 10.
Press release
9 comments:
I think that if your offfer was posted more openly like newspaper and advertisement it would have had a better impact.
I think this is an excellent product line and ordered many sheets forty to be exact for Christmas presents. Thank you for this opportunity and I hope they are allowed to proceed with this.
Don't let threats of baby pictures of Hitler from the
nay-sayers and scam artists dismay you. Nobody but
their sponsors care about that. I would find it amusing
personally. You have a great product! Please come back!
You mean the stamp I got of a baby with a mustache was
Hitler? Darn them jokers. I heard the the Lewinsky dress picture was fake though.
I got through pictures of Timothy McVeigh as a kid and also the Columbine Killers. You can snag just about any killer's baby photo off the web and upload it to Dips.com and they print it. What a Joke program. Wonder if Smoking Gun will buy these from me?
Historically, high ranking postal officials have frequently been involved in stamp shenanigans
for personal profit. If the Photostamps product is permanently scuttled I would be very
suspicious. Buy a pile of stamps, give phony excuses, kill the program, hide behind a wall
of secrecy. That might be the real game plan.
Hmm, stamp shenanigans for personal profit, eh? And exactly when did any of these shenanigans take place? I'm sure you can cite some examples?
I will go to the library and look it up again
just for you Mr. UPS fellow traveler. Stay tuned.
12/05/2004
I thought thizs wa a great service, and I'm sory the 'market test' was over. At a markup of more than $0.25 per stamp, it zhould have been a golden goose.
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