Just Put Down the Stamps, and No One Will Get Hurt. PBS Printable postage is here! Yes, now you can print the postage to send your books right onto the PBS Wrapper. Just click Print Wrapper as usual, and you will see the new Wrapper Settings page with the option to choose postage (PBS-DC included), just PBS-DC, or neither. Check the package weight estimate and correct it if necessary, then print the wrapper and mail! Because printed postage is not subject to the “13-oz regulation” (all packages bearing stamps that weigh over 13 oz must be handed to a postal clerk at the PO), you can mail your PBS-printed-postage-package (say that three times fast) with your outgoing mail, drop it in a blue mailbox, etc. If you don’t have a postal scale, you should check out the one in the PBS Store–it’s a great deal at $24.99. Remember, you can opt to use printed postage with any package, or not; there is no monthly subscription fee. It’s as easy (and inexpensive) as we could make it! Now get a-printin’! PBS Postage will also become available for Box-O-Books and Custom DC very soon.
She’s in the Money...Well, in the book credits, at least. The Winner of the PBS Third Birthday Contest (and 50 book credits) was Dawn F., who made a spectacular guess of 1,477,378 for the total available books as of noon on September 1st. The actual number was just ONE book more: 1,477,379. We got guesses all over the spectrum (a couple of you thought we’d have seven million books!), and some very close to the number, but no one as close as Dawn. We don’t know if she’s pyschic or lucky or what, but we will be asking her to choose our lottery numbers for sure…
Apology from PBS. We had significant server trouble on August 20th; it took down the whole site for several hours, a really unprecedented length of downtime for PBS. It took a while to track the problem to its source: the PBS Daily Digest and Daily Wish List. These emails really put a strain on the server. We think we have fixed the problem now. We know you all love your Digests! We are sorry our servers found them…well, indigestible.
Tags: Book Database, Contests, Printable Postage, Shipping Books & USPS
