Why do you need the Stamp Free app?

Tired of overpaying for stamps?

Tired of never having the right postage stamp?

Tired of not knowing what stamp to use?

How often do you guess at the number of stamps you need to put on a letter or parcel, overstamping to ensure it is delivered, and overpaying as a consequence?

The Stamp Free app tells you precisely what you need to pay for your mail item, whatever its shape, size or weight.

Tired of not knowing what stamp to use?

Tired of never having the right postage stamp?

Tired of not knowing what stamp to use?

You buy a postcard on holiday but don't have a stamp for it, or if you are in a foreign country, you don't even know where to buy the stamp or what is the right stamp.

The Stamp Free app is at hand any time and anywhere there is a mobile/cell phone signal to ensure your mail item has the correct postage wherever you are

Tired of never having the right postage stamp?

You have a letter or parcel to post, you have no idea how much the postage will cost and you have run out of stamps anyway.

You jump in the car, drive to your nearest outlet, join the queue, listen to the lady in front explain what is in her parcel and why its so important she has to get ahead of you before her lunch hour is up and finally buy your book of stamps and slap as many on as you think you will need and hope your letter or parcel arrives safely.

Or click on the Stamp Free app, buy your postage and post your letter or parcel in the normal way.

Life just doesn't need to be this complicated!

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History of the postage stamp

In 1840, Sir Rowland Hill invented the first postage stamp, the Penny Black. At the time it was normal for the recipient to pay postage on delivery, charged by the sheet and on distance travelled. By contrast, the Penny Black allowed letters of up to 1⁄2 ounce (14 grams) to be delivered at a flat rate of one penny, regardless of distance. Sir Rowland was actually just an English teacher but he recognised that if letters were cheaper to send, people, including the poorer classes, would send more of them, thus eventually profits would go up. In 1840, the first year of Penny Post, the number of letters sent in the UK more than doubled. Within three years postage stamps were introduced in Switzerland and Brazil, a little later in the US, and by 1860, they were in 90 countries. Sir Rowland disrupted global postal services in a way no one has before or since.

In the summer of 2018, our founder Hugh drove to a supermarket to buy a stamp for a letter. He sat in the supermarket car park struck by the stupidity of the fact that in this digital age, he needed to drive several miles and queue to buy a stamp to post his letter. Yet for an email or text, he could send his message instantly at no cost, to anyone anywhere in the world. Hugh likewise didn't work for a postal company but he could see that very little had changed since the days of Sir Rowland Hill. He came up with the idea of using your phone to buy digital postage and then post your letter or parcel in the normal way. From that supermarket car park, the Stamp Free Digital Postage Solution™ was born....