Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1996-12-30
1998-10-06
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
235375, 34082531, 705404, 705410, G07B 1704, G07B 1702, G06F 1760
Patent
active
058192395
ABSTRACT:
A method is disclosed for ensuring proper payment by a mailer for postage indicia printed by the postage meter of a mailing machine operated by the mailer. The method includes a series of steps carried out by the mailer in connection with the preparation of a discrete quantity of mail by use of a mailing machine which has the capability of determining and recording in a database various characteristics of the mail that affect the postage required for a postal facility to handle the mail, and generates a product usage profile of the mailer's history of mailing. The Post Office counts the mail, and then calculates an expected cost of the mailing using data from the mailer's product usage profile, and then compares that expected cost with the amount of postage credit funds remaining in the mailer's postage meter to determine whether it is likely that any fraud has occurred in the preparation of the mailing.
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Berson William
Digiulio Peter C.
Cosimano Edward R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Reichman Ronald
Scolnick Melvin J.
Whisker Robert H.
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