Specifications

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1 • Introduction

SV62276 Rev. D

Postal Requirements

The meter on your mailing machine is licensed by the United States

Postal Service (USPS

) and you must follow some basic requirements.

• Mail must have the correct date and postage amount in the me-

ter stamp (indicia).

• Metered mail must bear the ZIP Code location of the post office

where the postage meter (mailing machine) is registered.

• If you move to another ZIP Code location, you must update the

ZIP Code by calling our Customer Care Center (see page v).

• The

USPS

requires a postal inspection of your machine every

120 days. This postal inspection requirement can be automati-

cally met by connecting to the Pitney Bowes Data Center to

check your Postage By Phone

meter payment account balance

or to add postage to your mailing machine.

NOTE: If the in ter val between inspections is more than 90

days, your machine's dis play prompts "Connection Due."

If the interval be tween inspections is more than 120 days,

the dis play prompts "Connection Required By Post." At this

point, you won't be able to use your mailing system until your

system is inspected (i.e., connected to the Data Center). In ei-

ther case, to sat is fy the postal inspection requirement, simply:

• Follow the prompts on the "Connection Due" or "Connection

Required By Post" screens or

• Press Add Postage and select "Check PBP Account Bal-

ance" (which will not decrease or change the funds in your

account).

• Tape sheets are used to apply postage on mail pieces that are

too thick or too large to run through your machine. These sheets

must conform to postal spec i fi ca tions. For best performance, we

recommend Pit ney Bowes tape sheets (see Chapter 12, Sup-

plies and page v for ordering information).