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System and method for securely disseminating and managing postal rates

  • US 8,751,409 B2
  • Filed: 09/09/2011
  • Issued: 06/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for securely disseminating and managing postal rates comprising:

  • a postage vendor computer system having one or more processors;

    wherein the one or more processors are configured to;

    receive a transmission that includes one or more files containing custom postal rates from a postal service computer system, wherein the transmission further includes information that identifies a particular mailer associated with the custom postal rates;

    parse the one or more files into one or more data fields, wherein the one or more data fields represent the custom postal rates associated with the mailer;

    associate the custom postal rates with an account that the postage vendor computer system maintains for the mailer in response to the postal service computer system validating that the one or more data fields are identical to the custom postal rates; and

    enable the mailer to use the account that the postage vendor computer system maintains for the mailer to generate postage indicia at the custom postal rates.

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