Patent ID: 7707123

Claim:
A method for compensating a user of franking equipment arrangement for a postage value of a not usably printed franking imprint, that has been automatically billed to the user, comprising the steps of: (a) through a computerized processor of said franking equipment detecting, as an error event, an occurrence of a billed but not usably printed franking imprint having a postage value; (b) upon each occurrence of an error event, in said computerized processor, only electronically storing error amount information associated with detecting of each error event, said error amount information consisting of accumulated postage values for previously detected error events, and incrementing said error amount information solely by the postage value of each detected error event; and (c) transmitting said error amount information from said computerized processor to a computerized reimbursement entity, remote from said franking equipment arrangement and, at said computerized reimbursement entity, initiating reimbursement of said user for said postage value represented in said error amount information.