CUPPA
Postage Changes
Summer
2006
Stamps.com approval process as of 6/30/06
- CUPPA units that
submitted
P-Card exception forms for Stamps.com are allowed to use the P-Card(s)
listed
on those forms to purchase Stamps.com postage and products; P-Card
exception has been approved by the Corporate Card Office/Purchasing
- If other cardholders would like to purchase these services in the
future, they should complete a P-Card exception form (http://www.obfs.uillinois.edu/Forms/PcardExceptionRequest.doc)
and bring it to the Dean's Office
Canceling
Pitney Bowes
To receive remaining
postage as a check:
1. Call on the day you want to
no longer use your postage.
2. Call PB Postage-by-phone at 1-800-243-7800.
3. Say you want to remove your postage from the machine and place it
back in you acct. It will be done instantly.
4. Fax a written request to “Funds Dept.” at 203-460-5155 to have a
check with postage amount sent to you
5. List your postage-by-phone acct number, business name,
and contact phone number in the letter
To cancel your
machine rental call Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. at 1-800-288-2357.
Make
sure
you have no outstanding credit lines, charges, anything!
Also ask if
it will cost your unit to cancel.
Canceling
your UIC purchase order for Pitney Bowes services:
If your unit's Pitney Bowes services are paid for through a PO and you
want to cancel mid-way through the PO term, email
Margaret Kibaya at makibaya@uic.edu with your
If
you have a PO but are canceling at the end of the fiscal year/end of
the PO term, you should email Margaret to notify her, but there is no
action she has to take.
Creating
a Stamps.com account
1. Go to www.stamps.com
2. Click the Sign Up tab along the top
3. Enter the required information
4. When asked for SSN, use your UIN
5. Opt out of sharing information with third parties
6. When the sign-up process is complete, contact the CUPPATechs at cuppatech@listserv.uic.edu
to have an administrator log in and install the software
7. For security reasons install the software on only 1 or 2 computers
at most
8. Every time you install the program on a new computer, the first time
you open the program, it will ask you for the last 4 digits of your SSN
(UIN) and after being installed, will email the account holder to
notify that the program has been installed on a new computer
9. To allow multiple users to have distinct log-in names, you need to
upgrade to Premier membership, which cost $24.99 per month instead of
$15.99, but should avoid doing so as P-Card regulations allow only the
cardholder to make purchases with the card
Once you
open the Stamps.com software, this navigation bar will appear on the
left:
Home
-
Has links to different tools
Postage
- Netstamps: Print one stamp or a
sheet of
stamps; unmetered for anytime use; you must use
Netstamps for international mailing
-
Mailing: Print metered labels or
print a metered
stamp onto an envelope
-
Shipping: Print shipping labels
for packages
(UIC tends to use UPS services for this)
-
Purchase: Add postage to your
account with
P-card; state funds cannot be used
Address
Book: An
address book you can
personalize
Activity: A running tally of your
postage
use
Support: Contact information for
assistance
Store: Purchase labels,
envelopes, boxes,
Netstamps labels, etc.
Other Stamps.com tips and rules
CUSTOMER
SERVICE NUMBER: 1-888-434-0055
-
Stamps.com services and postage cannot
be purchased on state funds! See the following link for details: http://www.fs.uiuc.edu/cam/CAM/vii/vii-b-6.html
Note: The default for
Stamps.com is to NOT send an email about the monthly $15.99 fee; they
only send
emails confirming purchases of supplies or postage. Therefore, please
call and
have them reconfigure your account so you will have all the
documentation you
need for your P-Card.