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Guerilla marketing with stamps

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UPDATED: Monday, September 6, 2004 12:28
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Monday, September 6, 2004 12:15 PM

I stumbled across this on-line vendor for the US Postal Service ( http://photo.stamps.com/ ). One of their products is a personalized stamp. You upload an image and then they mail you a sheet of stamps with that image. There are some basic manipulation tools (zoom and translate) so you can upload a large picture and select a region to be used on the stamp rather than having to perfectly edit your picture before upload.

I just ordered 20 stamps with my grandparents wedding picture on them. I haven't yet received them (supposed to take up to 10 business days) so I can't really say anything about quality. From the pictures on the site there appears to be some barcodey type artifact on the right side but otherwise decent looking.

Pricing is pretty expensive (16.99 US$ for a sheet of 20 with 2.99 US$ shipping and handling - they do scale down cost for bulk orders - http://photo.stamps.com/support/faq/about/index.html#cost ). But if someone out there has disposable income (I know, I know, what's the likelihood of that in this dayanage

) this might be an interesting way to advertise for the movie with every letter you send.

As a last note, brought on by the experience over at Zazzle, they do have a copyright policy in terms of what images you're allowed to upload:

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Excerpted from http://photo.stamps.com/conditions/
D. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that you do not have a right to transmit or communicate under any contractual or fiduciary relationship or which infringes any copyright, trade mark, patent or other intellectual property right or any moral right of any party;

Just passing this along in case someone finds it useful.

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

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Monday, September 6, 2004 12:28 PM

RIVERGIRL

I picked up a couple "Tatoos" at World Con and already have put a couple on envelopes to send off to out of town friends--looking forward to putting a blue sun on my phone bill!!

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

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