Stamps.com

Company: Stamps.com, Los Angeles, CA
Entry Submitted By: Brew Media Relations
Company Description: Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) is a leading provider of Internet-based postage services. Stamps.com enables small businesses, enterprises, and consumers to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a PC, printer and Internet connection, right from their home or office. The Company targets its services to small businesses and home offices.
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: New Product or Service of the Year - Computer Software - New Version

Nomination Title: Stamps.com’s PC Postage Version 8.5

1. Tell the story about this nominated product or service (up to 500 words). Describe its function, features, benefits, and sales to date. You may include hyperlinks to product photos and data sheets. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:

PC Postage is a software-based service that allows customers to use PCs to
calculate and print valid U.S. postage for letters, packages and international
mail without having to go to the Post Office. Individuals, home offices and
small businesses can manage their mailing and shipping operations more
efficiently and securely than with postage meters or regular stamps. PC Postage
tracks postal spending using customers' client codes and can recommend optimal
delivery methods, formats and more. Small businesses, enterprises and advance
shippers can manage their mailing and shipping operations more efficiently and
securely than with postage meters or other shipping software.

PC Postage offers exclusive USPS rate discounts for Priority and Express Mail
which are not available with a postage meter or at the Post Office. For
businesses, Stamps.com is up to 80% cheaper than a traditional postage meter and
allows for easy tracking and reporting of postage expenditures.

Stamps.com’s PC Postage 8.5 is the world’s most powerful USPS shipping software.
PC Postage 8.5 is now available with ecommerce platform integrations. Users can
automatically retrieve order data from the most popular ecommerce stores
including eBay, Amazon.com Pro Merchant, Yahoo! Merchant, Google Checkout and
PayPal Shops.

• Retrieve data in various formats including CSV, Excel, Access, SQL
database and Oracle® via an ODBC connection.
• Import data in XML file formats (Stamps.com and other common formats).
• Easily manage and print labels for orders from multiple sources
(ecommerce store, ODBC data source and XML file) – all from a single interface.
• Stage printing by adding orders throughout the day and printing them
together later.
• View all your orders from one interface and keep track of how many
orders remain to be shipped.
• Stamps.com Postal Analyzer automatically checks for consistency between
order data and shipping instructions, highlighting potential mismatches with
warning signals.
• Print shipping labels in one batch consisting of various types of mail
pieces, weights, dimensions and mail classes.
• Stamps.com will automatically post to your eBay or Amazon.com Pro
Merchant store account shipping details like tracking number and cost data.
Build buyer confidence – from your eBay or Amazon.com Pro Merchant store
account, you can let customers know that an order has shipped along with the
tracking number.

Additional benefits include:

• Save over 80% compared to a postage meter
• Save money with discounts of 5% off domestic Express Mail®, up to 11% on
domestic Priority Mail®, up to 21% off select FedEx Services (Premier Customers
only), and 10% on mail insurance
• Free delivery confirmation on Priority Mail shipments
• Eliminate trips to the post office (save time and money spent on gas)
• Make mail look professional
• Never overpay for postage
• Print all your shipping labels in one batch

2. List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, product reviews, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:

Internet Retailer – http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=32793

Press release – http://investor.stamps.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=423065

Press release – http://investor.stamps.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=412039

The Web Sellers’ Circle webinar –
http://www.websellerscircle.com/public/350.cfm

Fortune Small Business Magazine’s 100 Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies –
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb100/2008/snapshots/50.html

Press release – Fortune Small Business Magazine –
http://investor.stamps.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=317380

PC World –
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143691/pc_postage_saves_time_money_and_headaches.html

The Tech (MIT's oldest and largest newspaper) –
http://tech.mit.edu/V123/N23/Gadget23.23f.html

BusinessWeek – http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_38/b4001811.htm

3. Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader(s) of the team that developed this nominated product or service:

Ken McBride has been President and CEO of Stamps.com since August 2001 and also
served as the CFO from October 2000 to January 2004. Previously, Mr. McBride
served as the Senior Director of Finance for the company from April 1999 to
October 2000. Before Stamps.com, Mr. McBride was a research analyst for Salomon
Smith Barney covering several industries in the high technology area.

Mr. McBride holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors, and a master’s degree in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Mr. McBride also holds an MBA
from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.