Method for providing franking notes on postal items
OwnerBernd Meyer, Jurgen Langinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for providing franking notes on postal items. The invention is characterized in that a credit information number (credit ID-CID) is formed in a loading station, encrypted and then sent to the customer system. The customer system stores the credit information number and the franking note is produced after inputting shipment data. Record of the franking note or notes produced is kept in the customer system.
Claims2
A method for providing mailpieces with a postage indicium, whereby a customer system controls the printing of postage indicia on mailpieces, characterized in that, in a loading station, a credit information number (Credit ID CID) is generated, encrypted and subsequently transmitted to the customer system, in that the customer system stores the credit identification number, in that the postage indicium is generated after the mailing data has been entered and in that a journal is recorded in the customer system pertaining to the produced postage indicium and/or the produced postage indicia.
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