Avery Office Products Group, Avery.com, and Stamps.com, the alternative to a postage meter, announced an alliance that will bring a co-branded service to small business users and consumers who will be able to print official postage using Stamps.com on Avery self-adhesive labels.

Avery will make the co-branded products and service available to consumers through

its customers in the office products channel, avery.com and stamps.com will support the program with its PC Postage service.

Avery markets products under the Avery brand name and is one of the leading manufacturers of self-adhesive labels for laser and ink jet printers, labeling software, binders, sheet protectors, index and tab dividers and other office-, home- and school-related supplies.

Stamps.com  is a leading provider of Internet-based postage services. Stamps.com’s online postage service enables small businesses, enterprises, and consumers to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a PC, printer and Internet connection, from their home or office. The company targets its services to small businesses and home offices, and currently has PC Postage partnerships with Microsoft, EarthLink, HP, NCR, Office Depot, the U.S. Postal Service and others.

PhotoStamps is a patented Stamps.com product that couples the technology of PC Postage with the simplicity of a web-based image upload and order process. PhotoStamps is currently available under authorization of the U.S. Postal Service through May 16, 2009. Customers may create full custom PhotoStamps with their own digital photograph, or they may choose a licensed image from one of many PhotoStamps collections such as NFL, Collegiate, and American Idol collection. Since launching PhotoStamps in May 2005, more than 58 million individual PhotoStamps have been shipped to customers. Stamps.com currently has PhotoStamps partnerships with Apple, Google/Picassa, HP/Snapfish, Adobe, and others.

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