Sherry truiit: You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm happy to try anything that will assist in weening me from Paypal. It would be nice to see them phased out. If they were an actual bank my feeling and experiences might have been different. I was just bold enough to remove the their link from my checkout this week. I really don't see it being a problem. Especially since I'm just starting out. If a customer specifically requests Paypal, I'd probably add it for them, though.
I writing this as an "edit post". I saw that the stamp.com characters changed to a link after I submitted my initial post. I thought links would only be created if they were within the site? I, of course, didn't use any html. I simply typed stamps.com.
By the way, the United States Post Office has introduced desktop shipping management software. It supports data import and batch printing. I'm still in the test phase with it. We'll see. I also use stamps.com.