Patent ID: 8612361

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, during processing of an item for delivery by a delivery service provider, a payment error amount with respect to a payment for delivery of said item; providing said payment error amount to a payment error handling computer system of a payment handling entity; obtaining, by said payment error handling computer system, predefined user payment error preferences with respect to handling delivery payment errors for a user associated with said item, wherein said predefined user payment error preferences define how said payment error is to be handled by said delivery service provider during said processing, said predefined user payment error preferences include information as to whether or not an ad hoc decision must be made by said user with respect to the handling of the payment errors, and wherein said predefined user payment error preferences were defined by said user to handle the payment errors; providing, by said payment error handling computer system, information with respect to handling said payment error in accordance with said predefined user payment error preferences to said delivery service provider; and handling, by said payment handling computer system, said payment error during processing of said item by said delivery service provider in accordance with said user payment error preferences.