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New Dispatch Times

Justin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:48:33 +0000

Over the next week, we’re going to be adjusting the time at which letters are dispatched for printing. After the transition, all letters will be dispatched at 1AM PST, Monday through Friday. This change will allow us to more easily handle volume spikes and avoid mailing delays as volumes continue to expand.

Please let us know if you have any questions about this change.

Volume Discounts

Justin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:13:16 +0000

One of the key questions many clients ask us when signing up is for details on volume discounts. Volume discounts are now available for all users, vastly expanding the range of mailings for which Postful is appropriate.

Discounts are based on the size of the payment. For example, a user adding $100 would see the price of a single page letter drop from $.99 to $.89 for the next $100 of orders.

Postful has always been the best deal available for individual mailings, now we’re able to extend that to much larger runs. Combined with our unmatched integration options and ease of use, we think that this will open up a lot of new uses.

Postful Adds Postcards

Justin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:00:01 +0000

The biggest feature we’re launching this week is the addition of postcards. It’s now easy to send custom postcards with your own photos and designs.

To try things out, just go to our site, upload a photo, and add your message. You can preview the card, set the recipient, and send in minutes. It’s only $.59 for a single 4.25″x6″ card. Volume discounts take things down from there.

It’s a great way to send reminders, thank you notes, vacation postcards, holiday cards, and more.

Of course, for many of you, sending individual cards isn’t your key concern. You want to integrate this directly with your application. Through our API, you have full control of the postcard printing system, including complete control of the design on both sides of the card (both sides full color).

If you’re interested in getting more details, just contact us and we can help you to handle the integration process.

For everyone, let us know what you like and, just as importantly, what you don’t like. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Postful Launches from Beta

Justin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:13:38 +0000

By now, many of you have noticed the major changes with Postful. We’re thrilled to be launching out of beta this week at the Office 2.0 conference where we’re one of the Launchpad companies.

We’ll be talking a lot more about the new features that we’re launching over the next few days. For now, let me just start by thanking all of the users who have helped us so much through the course of our beta development. Your feedback, patience, support, and excitement have been invaluable.

And, I’d like to also welcome all the new users who are joining us for the first time. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Postful at Office 2.0

Justin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:49:12 +0000

We’ve been working on some major updates recently, and we’re excited to say that we’ll be announcing them in just a little over a week at the Office 2.0 conference.

Aside from the obvious draw that Postful provides, there is an incredible group of panelists and speakers lined up. More, there are going to be a lot of people that we’re looking forward to meeting in person after long online interactions.

There are still some spots remaining, so if you have a chance, register now. Ismael Ghalimi and his team are putting together what looks to be a wonderful program, but it’s always the community that defines any conference, so we’d love to see as many of you there as possible.

For those who can’t make it, we’ll be posting updates here as well.

Downtime Tonight

Justin — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:18:47 +0000

Postful will be briefly down tonight for a server upgrade. This is scheduled to begin on Saturday, May 24 at 0000 PDT (0700 GMT). We’re allocating 3 hours for this, although we expect it take far less than that.

[Update 5/24/08] We’re back up and everything is running smoothly again.

Postal Rates Increase, Postful’s Prices Don’t

Justin — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:27:41 +0000

If you had to mail a letter today, you were probably hunting around for $.01 stamps or, worse, waiting in line at the post office to buy some. But if you’re a Postful user, you just sent your letters the same way you did last week.

More, you paid the same price as you did last week. That’s because we chose to keep our prices the same in spite of the increase in postal rates. It’s just one more way we try to make things easy for you (and hold the line against the inflationary pressures of US monetary and fiscal policies).

Coming Soon from Postful

Justin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:57:31 +0000

We’ve been somewhat quiet about new features lately (somewhat quiet, period). That will be changing over the next few months. Keep watching for some exciting announcements as we come up on the one year anniversary of our beta launch…

International Mailings

Justin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:35:47 +0000

Postful has been testing global mailings for several months now. We’re now expanding from our initial test group to support over 200 countries. Finally you can mail letters, photos, invoices, brochures, and more anywhere in the world as easily as sending an e-mail.

Pricing is slightly higher for letters mailed outside of the US. International letters are $1.49 for the first page, $.39 each additional page. The difference is due to international airmail pricing which runs about $.50 more than US domestic postage. However, given the rapidly weakening dollar, favorable exchange rates mostly make up for this difference. For example, $1.49 converts to about 1 Euro (as of 1/4/08).

Our experiences with mailing times have been better than expected. To Europe, we’ve seen mailing times from three to eight days. Delivery to Asia has varied from four to nine days. As we open more regional print centers, we look forward to making every letter sent from anywhere in the world into a local letter.

Below the fold is a list of all supported countries. We’re looking forward to connecting more families, helping more businesses reach their customers and contacts across the planet, and taking another big step towards bridging the online and offline worlds.

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Ascension
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxemborg
Macao
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Saint Lucia
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia-Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Radio Star

Justin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:40:03 +0000

If you’re interested in sharing your experience with Postful for a potential radio interview, let us know. Being located in the Los Angeles area is a plus, but not required.

You can contact us directly, through comments here, or through our feedback page.