Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1998-05-22
2000-08-29
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
283 71, 283 72, 382101, 705401, 705404, 705410, G07B 1700
Patent
active
061121932
ABSTRACT:
A system that uses a digital postage meter or Postal Security Device to add information to the indicia that indicates that the mail piece has already been scanned. This information will inform the scanner and a human that the postage paid for, as indicated in the indicia, has been used. The foregoing is accomplished by printing a scanner readable data field in the indicia or in the vicinity of the indicia that indicates the mail piece was received. Human readable data is also printed in the indicia or in the vicinity of the indicia that indicates the mail piece was received. For instance, the word "VOID" may be written in coded form and/or in human readable form. Information regarding the canceling of the indicia is transmitted to a data center.
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Dlugos Daniel F.
Sansone Ronald P.
Cosimano Edward R.
Melton Michael E.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Reichman Ronald
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