System and method to enable external processing device running a cloud application to control a mail processing machine

A system comprising:

• a mail processing machine;
• a network connectivity device coupled to the mail processing machine via a USB slave port on the mail processing machine, the network connectivity device being further coupled to a network;
• a processing device coupled to the network;
• and
• a web server coupled to the network,
• wherein the processing device controls operation of the mail processing machine using a web application hosted by the web server, the web server being configured to provide to the processing device access to a web application hosted by the web server via a web browser operating on the processing device;
• receive from the processing device an operation request for an operation to be performed by the mail processing machine;
• store a message including the operation request and an identification of the mail processing machine in a queue;
• and in response to receiving a request from the network connectivity device for any messages intended for the mail processing machine that are stored in the queue, provide the message stored in the queue to the network connectivity device;
• wherein the network connectivity device is configured to send the message to the mail processing machine and the mail processing machine is configured to process the message and perform the operation.