How can I print a USPS media rate shipping label?
USPS online does not allow you to print media mail labels or anything that isn’t priority/international, for some unknown reason. It looks like Endicia and Stamps.com do, however, and I would bet the other 3rd party approved PC postage places do too. You don’t really need to have a special media mail label printed, you just need to be able to print a label with the correct postage*. Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to do that without either getting a postage meter service, signing up for an approved USPS PC printing service, or taking the item t
The newer Endicia software will print non-postage labels, but it doesn’t sound as if the poster needs that. (And I don’t know if you have to have an Endicia account to get it to work at all.) The poster also didn’t mention being a Mac user, but Endicia has clients for Mac and Windows. Endicia does have a free trial period if you want to try it. Unless you’re shipping a lot of stuff, the monthly fee might not be worth it, but if you are it works really well. I used to have a postage meter, but I like using Endicia a lot more.
On a Mac, I think Swordfish Express (which is now the Mac client for Endicia) will do this. Note that it only prints the LABEL (with a delivery-confirmation barcode), not the POSTAGE. If you want to print postage, you need to use the newer Endicia client, and sign up for an Endicia account, which costs a non-trivial amount of money. But you can print labels, and get free delivery-confirmation, just by using Swordfish Express and a laser printer. You may have to hunt around online to find Swordfish Express (I think 1.0.2 is the latest non-Endicia version), since it seems like it’s been removed from their website. Maybe the newer Endicia software will print non-postage labels, but I’m not sure.
Go here: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now You may have to log in first, but I think it prompts you to log in. You can fill in (among others) a media mail label that you can print out. Postage comes out of your paypal account, naturally. I use this all the time to mail Book Mooch books. This makes it so I can just drop the book in the post office slot instead of standing in line.
A sneaky way to do it is through PayPal, if you have an account. Sign in through this link. There’s got to be a way to get to it through the regular link, I just never figured it out.
