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Stamps.com, Quicken Team Up.


Online ppstage provider Stamps.com (Stamps.com, Los Angeles, CA, www.stamps.com) A PC Postage service that lets you print U.S. postage stamps on your own printer. It was one of the first such services approved by the U.S.  has sealed a major deal with Intuit in·tu·it  
tr.v. in·tu·it·ed, in·tu·it·ing, in·tu·its Usage Problem
To know intuitively.



[Back-formation from intuition.
 Inc., maker of the Quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business.  suite of financial software.

Under the deal, Stamps.com's services will be integrated into various parts of Quicken 2001 Basic, Deluxe de·luxe also de luxe  
adj.
Particularly elegant and luxurious; sumptuous: deluxe accommodations; a de luxe automobile.

adv.
 and Home & Business software products. For example, when employers print out checks to vendors, they can also print out envelops with postage POSTAGE. The money charged by law for carrying letters, packets and documents by mail. By act of congress of March 3, 1851, Minot's Statute at Large, U. S. 587, it is enacted as follows:
     2.-Sec. 1.
.

"We're excited about the relationship, and it aligns us with one of the premier brands out there," said Doug Walner, senior vice president and general manager of Stamps.com's small-business unit. "We stand to gain from that."

Intuit sells a couple million units of Quicken each year, Walner said, adding that Stamps.com would also benefit from co-promotion and marketing on Quicken.com. "Their customer base is in the double-digit millions," he said.

Stamps.com will also offer some special promotions, including free postage for a limited time, to Quicken users.

Though Walner would not disclose detailed terms of the deal, he said, "They market our services, and we get customer acquisition and money."

The two companies will also share in the money generated from postage sales through the partnership.
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Author:DUNPHY, LAURA
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 28, 2000
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