Good Day

Anyone know of a Perl-compatible (in that I don't want to write XS for this) solution for printing US postage. All of the solutions that I have come accross want you, at best, to export all of your data to their dumb little app, and use that to print.

Since my software already printing the mailing label, it would be nice to include the indicium, but I would really like to be able to do it programmatically since we do over a hundered packages a month. I am so tired of stamps.

update: To be honest, I don't think I know exactly what I am looking for. :-) The solution would need to "sell" me the postage as we use it. We have to use a metered solution because we are shipping packages, but we know the exact wieght without a scale. I guess I want something like http://stamps.com or http://usps.com without having a seperate, stand-alone system, or redundant data entry. http://stamps.com offers a SDK, but what it really is, is a client-side activ-x control that gives you the same interface as their normal software.

I just have a feeling that http://amazon.com isn't sitting there printing stamps through some lame web interface.

Thanks!

Ted Young

($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)

In reply to Printing Parcel Postage by TedYoung

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