Business postage options include postage meters, printing postage online with Click-N-Ship and Click-N-Ship Business Pro, precanceled stamps, indicia, custom stamps, postage vendors. Check your shipping postage rate with the Business Price Calculator.

Postage meters and PC Postage products allow you to print postage indicia directly onto your mailpieces (or onto a meter tape or labels, which you then apply to your mailpiece).

Metered postage must be printed or applied in the upper right corner of the envelope or address label. Indicia must be printed with USPS-approved fluorescent ink or use another USPS-approved method to ensure that the mail is faced during processing.

Compare USPS business postage options including postage meters, online postage with Click-N-Ship or Click-N-Ship Business Pro, PC Postage, Permit Imprint, USPS Picture Permit Imprint Indicia, and Precanceled Stamps.

A postage meter is a device used to print postage directly onto mailpieces, indicating prepayment of postage.

Types of First-Class Mail® First-Class Mail® service is the least expensive, most immediate options for mailing postcards, letters, and large envelopes (flats) to retail customers at retail pricing. Commercial pricing, which is discounted from retail pricing, is available as First-Class Mail service for customers with large volumes of mail and who invest time preparing and sorting mail.

Your meter manufacturer will help you comply with these requirements: 1) postage amount, 2) meter number, 3) city and state of the post office where you hold your permit, and 4) class marking (NONPROFIT ORG, PRSRT FIRST-CLASS MAIL).

USPS postage rates offer low-cost mailing and shipping prices for domestic & international customers. See Forever postage stamp prices and other postage rates.

Aug 10, 2003 · b. Indicia generated by the system to show evidence of postage prepayment on the mailpiece. Indicia are also called “meter stamps” or “metered postage.”

Apr 9, 2024 · The new rates include a 5-cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp from 68 cents to 73 cents. The proposed adjustments, approved by the governors of the Postal Service, would raise mailing services product prices approximately 7.8 percent.