Tax Information With A Mother's Touch
Published by Eva Rosenberg, MBA, EA
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Tax Information With A Mother's Touch Published by Eva Rosenberg, MBA, EA |
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SENDING OUT PACKAGES orHow to Avoid Standing in Line at the Post Office for over an Hour Last week we sent out a whole USPS mail cart-load of boxes full of books and materials to students. If you watch TV, you've seen those commercials from the USPS about their service to have your packages picked up from your business. Well, we called them to do that. But, they wouldn't - for two reasons. 1) You need to make the arrangements at least one day in advance (by some cut-off time), so they can schedule it into their dispatch system. 2) The USPS will not pick up boxes of mail with regular postage. It must be metered postage or the equivalent. (And I think this attitude pre-dates Homeland Security. I rememeber this kind of 1-pound or more security starting with the Unibomber and mail bombs.) What can a home-based business do? Especially if you don't want to go to the time and trouble to get a postage meter and stand in line regularly to get the postage refilled? We can sign up for a Stamps.com postage account. You can print the postage directly off the system onto your printer. You can print the postage onto labels, envelopes, or even plain paper - and tape the plain paper to your box. The labels include your return address, the recipient's address, postage and bar codes for quicker scanning and delivery. Something else they told me, that I haven't quite been able to verify. But if you schedule a pick-up using the computer-generated postage, you'll be able to get free tracking numbers for all the packages in that shipment. We'll find out more about that this summer. Anyway, you may want to look into this if you ever have to do any shipping - even just for regular mailing. Stamps.com There is a fee of about $16/mo - but they make up for that with $80 worth of freebies when you sign up. We did! Bio: Eva Rosenberg, EA, writes the Internet's popular weekly Ask TaxMama column on TaxMama.com. With a tax practice spanning the globe, she's faced just about any tax question you can imagine. A popular columnist, writer and speaker, Eva does a great 'Stand-Up Tax' routine for seminars and workshops that's both funny and informative. Copyright ©Eva Rosenberg 2007 |
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