Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1997-05-08
1999-11-02
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
101 71, 283 71, 705402, G07B 1700
Patent
active
059787813
ABSTRACT:
A inexpensive and time saving method and system for reducing the use of gummed service stickers and the completion by hand of special forms for specialty mail is disclosed. This invention also reduces the amount of trips that have to be made to the post. The foregoing may be accomplished by replacing the standard (fixed) graphic cartridge that is normally supplied with a standard digital postage meter with an addressable "ram" image cartridge. The addressable ram image cartridge may also be linked to a personal computer, where a program would allow the user to request specialty mail services. Once the desired service (services) are selected, the required postal graphic images are downloaded into the ram cartridge. Next, postal payment, if any, is totaled and the additional postal value is totaled and passed to the postal meter vault for totaling and printing in an accountable way. Finally, the personal computer meter or postage meter cycles normally first printing the indicia and then the graphics and bar codes as specified by each postal service that was selected by the user.
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PostMaster Software, Inc. (No date).
Cosimano Edward R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Reichman Ronald
Scolnick Melvin J.
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