{"id":486,"date":"2013-02-07T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofranklingo.wordpress.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:03:26","slug":"usps-postage-discount-program-begins-march-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/usps-postage-discount-program-begins-march-1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Postage Discount Program Begins March 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

We posted earlier about the six postage discount programs being offered by the USPS this year.\u00a0 You can get the official information here: http:\/\/1.usa.gov\/Se9pjO<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first of these begins on March 1st<\/sup> and runs through April 30th<\/sup>.\u00a0 It offers an upfront 2% postage discount by providing either (1) a mobile coupon that can be stored on and redeemed with a mobile device; or (2) a 2D barcode that can be scanned by a mobile device that brings up a phone number automatically on the users phone.<\/p>\n

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The second option is easily implemented.\u00a0 To start, just click on this link: \u00a0http:\/\/www.mobile-barcodes.com\/qr-code-generator\/<\/span><\/a><\/span> .\u00a0 Scroll down the page to the section labeled \u201cGenerate\u201d\u00a0and select the \u201cPhone\u201d tab.\u00a0 Enter the phone number you wish the code to link to without any dashes or spaces, i.e. 8005551212.\u00a0 Just right click the generated code and save it to your computer.<\/p>\n

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Hint: \u00a0Make sure it is a genuine phone number and have somebody available to answer it.\u00a0 Having a phone number come up on a user\u2019s phone that leads nowhere or does not provide value to them will just inconvenience your customer or prospect.\u00a0 Try to add value to the call.\u00a0 For example, add a line near the code that says something like \u201cScan this code with your smart phone to call and redeem your offer\u201d or \u201cTo receive more information scan this code with your smart phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If you have any questions, please contact the USPS at mobilebarcode@usps.gov<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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We posted earlier about the six postage discount programs being offered by the USPS this year.\u00a0 You can get the official information here: http:\/\/1.usa.gov\/Se9pjO<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The first of these begins on March 1st and runs through April 30th.\u00a0 It offers an upfront 2% postage discount by providing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,15,33,34,41,71,96,110,122,132],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-posts","tag-2-postage-discount","tag-2d-code","tag-direct-mail","tag-direct-mail-budget","tag-direct-mail-trends","tag-mail-design","tag-postage-savings","tag-qr-code","tag-save-postage","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}