Best service for printing postage?

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OK, it's finally time for me to use one of the companies that charge a monthly fee for postage. I know there is stamps.com and there is Endicia. Anyone have experience with either of them? And do any of these postage printing companies have APIs?

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For postage, just go to a USPS "Automated Postal Center", select a size, place the package on the scale, select a package, zip code, delivery, and confirm. It may take 5 steps but may only take 30 seconds per item. Pay with your credit card, attach the printed postage labels, and leave your packages with the USPS.

If you use the Dymo just for printing address labels, then not only can you start with the cheapest label maker, but you can use the address label for any purpose.

For many daily shipments, you can use a Dymo Label Writer with combined address/postage labels customized for Endicia.

Endicia's API, unless they changed it, is an always-on program that checks if a certain file has shipping information in it. If it does, it prints out shipping labels and clears the file.

Endicia has excellent support; I believe actual developers answered your questions last I used them.

I used Endicia for a while a couple years ago (selling textbooks on Amazon), no complaints. They do have an API, but we used an out-of-the-box order tracking/shipping system, so I don't have any experience coding with it.

Thanks. I'll probably use something out of the box also... it just makes me feel better knowing that there is an API there if I need it.

Is Endicia capable of accessing a sales database on a remote MySQL server?

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