Stamps.com Announces PhotoStamps Successfully Completes Market Test
PhotoStamps Now Available in Seven New Denominations; Perfect for Special Events and Weddings
| Source: Stamps.com
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 18, 2009) - Stamps.com® (NASDAQ : STMP ), the leading
provider of online postage and shipping software
solutions to approximately 400,000 customers, today announced that its
consumer product PhotoStamps®
has successfully completed its market test and the product is no longer in
market test status. Since Stamps.com launched PhotoStamps in 2005, more
than 70 million PhotoStamps have been shipped to customers.
"Consumers love using PhotoStamps to share treasured moments and to make
their special mailings even more personal," said Stamps.com president and
CEO Ken McBride. "We are pleased that the market test for PhotoStamps has
been completed successfully."
Stamps.com also announced this week new developments in the PhotoStamps
product line at the National Stationery Show in New York City. PhotoStamps
are now available in seven new denominations that allow customers to mail
heavier and odd-shaped mail pieces. These new special-event rates are also
available to PhotoStamps partners and resellers, including digital photo
companies, stationers, photographers, designers and more. The enhanced
selection of PhotoStamps postage rates increases the ability of partners
and resellers to offer the right product to their customers. Customers
mailing wedding and other distinctive pieces can now use PhotoStamps with
the accurate rate denomination. Visit Stamps.com at booth 2362 at the
National Stationery Show May 17-19, 2009 to learn more.
About Stamps.com and PhotoStamps
Stamps.com (NASDAQ : STMP ) is a leading provider of Internet-based postage
services. Stamps.com's online postage service enables small businesses, enterprises, advanced shippers and
consumers to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a PC,
printer and Internet connection, right from their home or office. The
Company targets its services to small businesses and home offices, and
currently has PC Postage partnerships with Avery Dennison, Microsoft, HP,
Office Depot, and others.
PhotoStamps is a patented
Stamps.com product that couples the technology of PC Postage with the
simplicity of a web-based image upload and order process. Customers may
create full custom PhotoStamps with their own digital photograph, or they
may choose a licensed image from one of many PhotoStamps collections such
as the collegiate collection. Since launching PhotoStamps in May 2005, more
than 70 million individual PhotoStamps have been shipped to customers.
Stamps.com currently has PhotoStamps partnerships with Apple,
Google/Picassa, HP/Snapfish, Costco, Adobe, and others.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995: This release includes forward-looking statements about our
anticipated results and our PhotoStamps spend that involve risks and
uncertainties. Important factors, including the Company's ability to
complete and ship its products, maintain desirable economics for its
products and obtain or maintain regulatory approval, which could cause
actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements, are detailed in filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission made from time to time by STAMPS.COM, including its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K. STAMPS.COM undertakes no
obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Stamps.com, the Stamps.com logo and PhotoStamps are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Stamps.com Inc. All other brands and names are
property of their respective owners.