SwapSimple.com Weblog

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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

SwapSimple.com Endorsed By University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Today, the Student Government of the University of Nebraska at Omaha has decided to endorse SwapSimple.com and recommend us to their student body.

We began talking to them in early February, while distributing flyers on their campus in sub zero weather. It was so cold that students were taking flyers from us out of shear pity.

In order to warm up a bit, we went inside to the Student Union and happened upon the Student Government office. We went in.

We met a few Student Government Senators, and told them all about SwapSimple.com. As it turned out, they had already been looking for alternatives to their school bookstore, but were generally unsatisfied with the existing services available. After we explained in detail how SwapSimple.com was totally unique, they became very interested.

After many meetings via email and telephone, we got the email today from them today saying that they will be officially endorsing and recommending SwapSimple.com to their student body. In addition, they arranged to purchase 10,000 SwapSimple.com flyers (at cost of course) in order to help them promote the service on their campus.

Today is a good day!. Thank you UNO SGA, and welcome UNO students and faculty!

Thursday, March 03, 2005

United States Postal Service Approval Granted!

Today we received word from the United States Postal Service that our proposal to offer a new kind of electronic postage was approved.

Now we are able to offer full USPS postage on the SwapSimple.com website, fully integrated into the user experience, and complete with support for both Priority Mail and extremely low cost Media Mail.

We would like to especially thank our friends at Endicia, Inc. for working with us for so long, hand in hand, in order to make this new form of postage/shipping possible.