With Stamps.com, you can easily buy, calculate and print official USPS® postage for anything from postcards to envelopes to packages – domestic or international. Print on a variety of labels, envelopes or plain paper.
Our Story. Put a personal touch on your mail, or share this useful gift with friends and family. Zazzle's large custom stamps are perfect for standard letters and larger envelopes, and most especially, for your most special life events.
How to make your own custom PhotoStamps
- PHOTOSTAMPS are a terrific way to make every event special.
- On the PhotoStamps landing page in your browser click CREATE NOW.
- Our PhotoStamps Tool will open.
- The Add Your Image window will open.
- Use the controls to zoom, rotate, and move your image until it is just how you want it.
Most First Class Mail letters include general correspondence such as billing invoices, credit card statements and birthday cards. These items typically weigh one ounce or less. The cost of a one-ounce First Class Mail stamp is $0.55 at the Post Office, or $0.47 if you buy and print stamps online using Stamps.com.
To buy some, your local post office is a good place to start, but you don't need to step foot in one — you can order them from the US Postal Service's website. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and similar retailers often carry booklets of stamps, too.
Yes! Stamps.com's PhotoStamps are completely valid US Postage, valid for the most popular domestic USPS mail classes.
Users can design "Smilers" stamps on the Royal Mail website, where they can personalise a christening card with the picture of a newborn, for example, or create a design for weddings and birthdays. The stamps are available to design at the Royal Mail website.
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. Stamps.com, the Stamps.com logo and PhotoStamps are trademarks or registered trademarks of Stamps.com Inc.
Custom NetStamps will no longer be available for purchase, effective June 10, 2020. The USPS has decided to end the customized postage program, which was the USPS program that enabled us to offer Custom NetStamps.
The program allows customers to easily send domestic or international mail by printing postage directly onto labels, envelopes or regular paper using your computer and printer. And Stamps.com is automatically updated — at no cost to you — every time postal rates change.
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that postage rates will be increasing in the new year — with one big exception. The price of a "forever" stamp, used on the standard first-class letter, stays at 55 cents in 2021. The forever stamp rate has been at 55 cents since Jan. 27, 2019.
Stamps.com is approved by the USPS® to allow customers to buy and print postage online. The company is a participant in the USPS's Information Based Indicia Program (IBIP), an initiative spearheaded by the Postal Technology Management group at the Postal Service.
Stamps.com also offered a product called PhotoStamps that allows customers to upload personal photographs or logos to be printed on real U.S. postage stamps. PhotoStamps were sold as a sheet of 20 postage stamps. The service was discontinued on June 10, 2020 after the USPS discontinued its customized postage program.
The Postal Store has a wide selection of
Forever Stamps available for purchase.
Stamps By Mail®
- Stamps By Mail® allows you to order stamps through the mail using PS Form 3227-A.
- Stamps will be delivered 2-3 days after the order has been received.
How to Determine Stamp Values
- Identify the stamp.
- Find out when was the stamp issued.
- Know the stamp's age and material used.
- Determine the centering of the design.
- Check the stamp's gum.
- Determine the condition of the perforations.
- See if the stamp has been cancelled or not.
- Find out the rarity of the stamp.
The 10 Most Valuable U.S. Stamps
- The Inverted Jenny. (Courtesy of Siegel Auction Gallery)
- 1847 Issue Block of 16 of Ben Franklin.
- Almanac Stamp of 1765 or 1766.
- 'Blue Boy' Alexandria Postmaster's Provisional.
- 1869 Pictorials—Inverted Center Errors.
- Two-Cent Blue Hawaiian Missionary.
- 1860 Stolen Pony Cover.
- Pan American Inverts.
Look for an appraiser through authoritative sources like official stamp collection societies. The American Philatelic Society notes you may pay anywhere from $75 to $250 an hour to have the stamps/collection appraised. Some local groups, like the Northern Philatelic Society, may offer free appraisal services.
Here are 6 of the best places to sell old stamps:
- A Collector. If you're able to contact a collector directly, this may save you a lot of time.
- A Dealer. Selling to stamp dealers is the fastest way to gain immediate money.
- On Consignment.
- A Stamp Show.
- An Auction House.
- An Online Auction.
Newcastle-born expert Bloxham, who has been collecting stamps since he was 11 years old, says a primary consideration is the condition of the stamp. Stamps may also have value if they were issued no later than about 1960, though this doesn't mean the older the stamp, the more valuable they are.
The free “Stamp Manager” app takes the stamp collectors' world into the digital age with a mobile desktop platform. The app is available for both iOS and android free of charge in the respective app store.
Stamps are still used occasionally, if rarely saved or savored. Stamps were, and sometimes still are, things of beauty and history, links to distant places that spawned a global hobby known as philately, or, simply, stamp collecting.
The one certainty in the world of first-day cover collecting is that blank first-day covers are virtually worthless in today's stamp collecting marketplace. In general, only stamps canceled with the first-day date are deemed collectible without a cachet.
As explained on the U.S.P.S. website, custom stamps can be designed and purchased from PhotoStamps, PictureItPostage and Zazzle. Pick the vendor you like best, go to the stamp-making page on its website and select the option to create stamps.
Just click, print and mail.Simply log-in to Stamps.com, print your postage then drop your letters and packages into any mailbox, hand them to your postal carrier or schedule a USPS pick-up right through the software.
