Personalized Postage Stamps
Personalized Postage Stamps Written by: Lloyd Lewis Jan 14, 2006
Personalized Postage Stamps There is a large variety of postage
stamps all over the world. Personalized postage stamps, is a
postage stamp where your personal picture or photograghs can be
uploaded on your computer and turn into postage stamps.
PhotoStamps are so different, that they can practically
represent anything and even anyone.
Imagine having the ability to put photos of children, families,
friends and pets on a stamp. PhotoStamps are a fun and easy way
to add a personal touch to everything you send in the mail! On
the creativity side, personalized postage stamps can represent a
great innovation source, and can produce the smallest fine art
available and affordable to all people around the world.
Also, the maker of these personalized postage stamps can use
them as a promotional tool.
There have been important personalities in history that had the
desire to put their mark on almost anything important, and so,
in the late 90's, the first personalized postage stamp had been
released.
However, there are some issues concerning these personalized
postage stamps.
Copyright.
The publishing of some collectable stamps that represent
personalized things, such as a picture or a personal note, is
still a debatable problem today.
Making personalized postage stamps requires the approval of
postal legislation, which provides strict rules for the
reproduction and sale of postage stamps.
Personalized postage stamps are a matter of law as well as a
matter of art and creativity. Definitely, Personalized postage
stamps are authorize U.S. Postage, based on computer technology
called PC Postage, which is what create the bar code you see to
the right of the image area on Personalized postage stamps.
When Personalized postage stamps first launched in 2004, it was
the first ever customized postage product in the U.S.. Only
representative that are licensed and authorized to produce PC
Postage may display the trademark seen below:
An approved Licensed Vendor UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE PC
Postage
Stamps . com, the company behind Personalized postage stamps,
has been a United States Postal Service- sanctioned provider of
PC postage since 1999, and is the industry pioneer.
Since the legislation has given it's approval on the
publication of your personalized postage stamps, you can promote
your entire image to countries and places all over the world.
Having postage stamps with signatures of famous people can
increase the demand of such collectable items, and personalized
postage stamps can become an individual business.
The human imagination has no boundaries, and the innovating
ideas have no limit.
Personalized postage stamps are a real valid proof of that.
Collecting an entire small collection of rare paintings can now
become an affordable hobby, or having your name travel all over
the globe, written on a personalized postage stamp, is really a
possible and achievable goal.
What is the cost?
The total charge of your order will depend on the postage value
of your Personalized postage stamps and the number of sheets you
order. Each sheet contains 20 Personalized postage stamp labels,
and the smallest amount you can order, is one sheet.
How large are Personalized tamps?
Stamps . com try to achieve the largest possible picture display
area while also making the overall personalized stamp dimensions
reasonable for most applications. Each individual Personalized
Stamp measures 1.9 inches in width and 1.4 inches in height, and
the image area is 1.1 inches in width and 1.1 inches in height.
Millions Sold Already
The successful subsequently market test during 2004 in which
over 2.75 million Personalized postage stamps were sold in just
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