Tired of running out of stamps and making lengthy trips to the post office at inconvenient times? Now you can save time and aggravation by purchasing stamps in the comfort of your own home office on the Internet. Computer software has been developed by technology companies with the capability to buy postage online. Two such names are SmartStamp from E-Stamp Corp and PC Stamp from Neopost. The computer software enables you to download postage from the Internet, output the postal indicia to your home office printer, and affix the postal indicia on labels or envelopes, thus taking the place of stamps.

Your advertising slogan can also be printed within the postal indicia. Postal technology continues to move forward as the U.S. Postal Service works with technology companies to develop products and services for the small office/ home office market.