USPO & Digital Postage/E-Cash Project

Perry E. Metzger perry at imsi.com
Wed Feb 8 07:15:51 PST 1995



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






More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list