ZAZZLE AND PITNEY BOWES TEAM UP TO DELIVER CUSTOM STAMPS TO CONSUMERS
ZAZZLE AND PITNEY BOWES TEAM UP TO DELIVER CUSTOM STAMPS TO CONSUMERS
Zazzle takes their On-Demand Manufacturing, Vast Image Collections and Community to Stamps
Palo Alto, CA - July 18, 2005 - Zazzle, (www.zazzle.com), the Internet's leading customized products marketplace, and Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI), the world's leading provider of integrated mail and document management systems & services, today announced the launch of Zazzle's newest product line. Consumers and business owners alike now have the power to create their own customized United States postage at www.zazzle.com.
At Zazzle, individuals, groups and businesses can share their interests by creating, buying, and selling high quality, uniquely customized products including apparel, posters, cards, and stamps. Zazzle combines a just-in-time manufacturing process, easy to use design tools, and the world's largest collection of online customizable digital images to empower users to create on-demand products to their own exact specifications. Users can create one-of-a-kind products for themselves, to send as gifts, to share with others with similar interests, as well as to sell through Zazzle's online user-created marketplace.
Creating and buying stamps is simple at Zazzle.com. Customers can quickly and easily upload their own digital content or choose from Zazzle's special partner collections such as Walt Disney. Stamps can be customized using a broad array of colors, layouts, and text styles, before choosing the denomination and placing the order. Each sheet includes 20 individual large-format stamps and is available at most common rates.
"Zazzle's focus on providing high quality on-demand consumer products together with a great online user experience make them the logical trusted partner for Pitney Bowes,” said Ian Siveyer, Vice President Strategic Marketing at Pitney Bowes. "Zazzle gives people the capability to make unique, high quality creations on a wide variety of products. Pitney and Zazzle together now extend this capability to include valid U.S. postage."
"The range of products that have been created through Zazzle so far is amazing - and we know we are just beginning," said Robert Beaver, chief executive officer of Zazzle. "Our partnership with Pitney Bowes gives our users a new and innovative avenue for self-expression as we continue to build the most compelling marketplace for on-demand user-created products."
How to Zazzle
Want to celebrate a child's birthday, a family reunion, commemorate a significant event, or just share your original creations with a wider audience? Whether it's creating one shirt or a thousand holiday cards, finding a special collector-quality map or sharing a fun family reunion photo, Zazzle allows consumers to easily share their creations with the world for a variety of purposes including:
• Commemorating events such as birthdays, graduations and family reunions
• Generating exposure and enthusiasm for charities and causes
• Uniting teams, schools and businesses for various events
• Building communities for special interests such as maps, sci-fi, photography, politics and more
• Creating store and selling products to generate exposure and earn royalties
Zazzle's marketplace includes hundreds of thousands of digital images from artists and creative consumers worldwide, in addition to special collections from well-known brands. Many of the images have never before been seen by the general public or been available for customization purposes.
Zazzle Special Collections
Zazzle's world-class content partners have millions of images that users have always wanted to make their own. Before Zazzle, it wasn't feasible for these companies and institutions to provide all the product combinations and customization options that consumers desired. With just-in-time manufacturing and unmatched personalization options, Zazzle empowers consumers to create unique, on-demand products with their favorite images from leading brands.
For the first time, The Walt Disney Company has made its legendary characters and artwork available to the public for creating personalized gifts and apparel. The collection of over 3,500 authentic Disney images features vintage Mickey Mouse, Snow White, classic Pinocchio and Peter Pan, as well as modern favorites, such as Stitch and Nemo.
Other Zazzle Special Collections include historical images from The Library of Congress, the California State Library, the Boston Public Library, the Linda Hall Library and The Hoover Institution. One-of-a-kind characters are also available on Zazzle from collections such as Harvey Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox's Family Guy™, Robots™, Neopets, The Pemberton & Oakes Collection, Zodiac Girlz, Build-A-Bear Workshop and more.
Zazzle Community Collections
Zazzle is also home to sellers who are individual artists, photographers, designers, and creative consumers worldwide. Sellers can choose to make their creations public in a Zazzle store where anyone can browse, comment or connect with others who share their interests. Sellers earn royalties every time their creations are purchased by others.
"Without Zazzle, I'd have to get into the printing and production business," said Ryan Bliss of digitalblasphemy.com, "Zazzle lets me focus on my artwork. They are the only partner that can provide high quality production, without minimums, to a world-wide audience."
About Zazzle
Zazzle is the leading customized products marketplace for consumer enthusiasts to share and celebrate their interests by creating apparel, posters, cards, stamps and more. Zazzle combines on-demand manufacturing, a robust online community, the largest online collection of customizable digital images and unmatched personalization tools to empower consumers to create their products. In addition, individuals can choose to become sellers by sharing their unique creations in Zazzle's public stores. Within these stores, anyone can browse, comment and connect with others who share their interests. Sellers also earn royalties every time their creations are purchased by others. For anyone who wishes to create, wear, display, sell or celebrate their interests, Zazzle provides a compelling interactive marketplace to a worldwide audience. For more information, please visit www.zazzle.com.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes is the world's leading provider of integrated mail and document management systems, services and solutions. The $5.1 billion company helps organizations of all sizes efficiently and effectively manage their mission-critical mail and document flow in physical, digital and hybrid formats. Its solutions range from addressing software and metering systems to print stream management, electronic bill presentment and presort mail services. The company's 85 years of technological leadership have produced many major innovations in the mailing industry, and it is consistently on the Intellectual Property Owner's list of top U.S. patent holders. With approximately 35,000 employees worldwide, Pitney Bowes serves more than two million businesses through direct and dealer operations. More information about the company can be found at www.pb.com.
