Method for the recovery of unusable printed postage

Details Method for the recovery of unusable printed postage Method for the recovery of unusable printed postage

2007-08-21

2007-08-21

Stcyr, Daniel (Department: 2876)

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C705S060000, C705S061000, C705S062000, C705S401000, C705S402000, C705S410000

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10880443

ABSTRACT:
A method for recovering postage for metered mail pieces that have not been posted, the method includes: placing information that uniquely identifies the mail piecedelete-start id="DEL-S-00001" date="20070821" ?in a postal indiciadelete-end id="DEL-S-00001" ?; storing the information that uniquely identifies each metered mail piece at a remote site; requesting a refund for a mail piece that has not been posted; determining if the informationdelete-start id="DEL-S-00002" date="20070821" ?in the postal indiciadelete-end id="DEL-S-00002" ?insert-start id="INS-S-00001" date="20070821" ?that appears on the face of the mail pieceinsert-end id="INS-S-00001" ?that uniquely identifies the mail piece is the same as the information that uniquely identifies the mail piece that is stored in the remote site; and refunding the postage if the informationdelete-start id="DEL-S-00003" date="20070821" ?in the postal indiciadelete-end id="DEL-S-00003" ?that uniquely identifies the mail piece is the same as the information that uniquely identifies the mail piece that is stored in the remote site.

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