Electronic stamp system and method

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by at least one processor, a piece of electronic correspondence from a sender computing device;
• determining, by the at least one processor, that the piece of electronic correspondence is sent to a recipient that requests that the piece of electronic correspondence has an electronic stamp;
• sending, by the at least one processor, a request to attach the electronic stamp to the piece of electronic correspondence to the sender computing device;
• receiving, by the at least one processor, the piece of electronic correspondence with the electronic stamp and forwarding the piece of electronic correspondence to the recipient;
• receiving, by the at least one processor, one of an acknowledgement and a rejection of the piece of electronic correspondence from the recipient;
• and
• returning, by the at least one processor, the electronic stamp to the recipient after the acknowledgement to allow the electronic stamp to be reused in a future piece of electronic correspondence.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving a piece of electronic correspondence from a sender computing device;
• determining that the piece of electronic correspondence is sent to a recipient that requests that the piece of electronic correspondence has an electronic stamp;
• sending a request to attach the electronic stamp to the piece of electronic correspondence to the sender computing device;
• receiving the piece of electronic correspondence with the electronic stamp and forwarding the piece of electronic correspondence to the recipient;
• receiving one of an acknowledgement and a rejection of the piece of electronic correspondence from the recipient;
• and
• returning the electronic stamp to the recipient after the acknowledgement to allow the electronic stamp to be reused in a future piece of electronic correspondence.