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By Karen Kaplan

May 19, 1999 12 AM PT

* The U.S. Postal Service has given Santa Monica-based Stamps.com the OK to begin the final phase of testing for its Internet-based postage service, the company is expected to announce today. Stamps.com will recruit 1,000 home-based small businesses in California and the Washington, D.C., area to test its service, which allows customers to print postage directly onto envelopes using free software that is available on the Stamps.com Web site (https://www.stamps.com). The company expects to launch its service this summer.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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