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US 2009/0125456 A1Published application
System and method for printing postage indicia with mail-by date
AssigneeStamps.com Inc.
InventorSalim G. Kara
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Abstract
An envelope having a window for allowing a printed postage indicia to show through is shown. According to a preferred embodiment, the postage indicia window may be provided with a glassine covering. Preferably the postage indicia may be put in a corner of a document to be mailed and the document placed in the envelope so that the postage indicia shows through the postage indicia window.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- determining a mail-by date for a postage indicium, wherein said mail-by date is a date by which said postage indicium must be introduced into a mail stream to be valid;
- printing, on a printing date, said postage indicium comprising said mail-by date, wherein said printing date is a day which is before in time then said mail-by date;
- and
- introducing said postage indicium into said mail stream on any date before in time then said mail-by date and after in time then said printing date.
1 more element
A postage indicium comprising:
- a value amount;
- and
- an expiration date, wherein said expiration date is a date by which said postage indicium must be introduced into a mail stream to be valid, and wherein said expiration date is a date after in time then a day on which said postage indicium was generated.
A system comprising:
- a postage generator generating a postage indicium including a mail-by date, wherein said mail-by date establishes a finite number of a days within which said postage indicium must be introduced into a mail stream to be valid;
- and
- a printer printing said generated postage indicium.
A method comprising:
- determining an expiration date for a postage indicium, wherein said expiration date establishes a finite number of days within which said postage indicium must be introduced into a mail stream to be valid;
- and
- printing said postage indicium comprising said expiration date.
The method of claim 21 wherein said determining is based on user input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.