Patent ID: 6925450
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: G06Q,G07B

Abstract:
1. A method for a payment service to pay a postal service for permit mail comprising the steps of: establishing a master payment account with a postal service to pay for permit mail inducted by the postal service under a plurality of different permit imprint numbers issued to a plurality of different mailers; establishing at least one associated mailer account for each of the plurality of mailers; receiving, at the payment service, a request from one of the plurality of mailers for the payment service to make payment for a mailing under a permit imprint number issued to the mailer, the request including information related to the mailing; providing the information related to the mailing to a postal service induction site for the mailing; and if the mailing is accepted by the postal service induction site, providing payment to the postal service for the mailing from the master payment account.