From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 07:15:51 PST
To: daleh@ix.netcom.com (Dale Harrison (AEGIS))
Subject: Re: USPO & Digital Postage/E-Cash Project
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Dale Harrison (AEGIS) says:
> This would have been a digital replacement for the Pitney-Bose style
> Postage Metering machines.  To use a PM machine one has to take the
> entire machine physically to a Postal Station and purchase some
> fixed dollar amount of postage.  The Postal clerk unseals and
> unlocks the machine, dials in the amount of postage purchased and
> then relocks and reseals the machine.

This is not the only way to get postage in postage meters. Some P-B
machines also let you buy postage by phone.

Perry