Patent ID: 8285651

Claim:
A high speed mail processing method comprising: receiving a token representing a predetermined value from a trusted meter, said token authorizing issuance of a plurality of reduced information based postage indicia up to said predetermined value; forming, by a computer processor, a dataset comprising enough information to create one or more full information based postage indicia; forming, by said computer processor, one or more said reduced information based postage indicia using information from said dataset, wherein said reduced information based postage indicia evidences paid postage on a mail piece, and wherein said reduced information based postage indicia comprises less than said enough information to create a full information based postage indicia for said mail piece; and printing, by a printer, said reduced information based postage indicia without printing said full information based indicia and without delay associated with generating said full information based postage indicia, wherein said reduced information postage indicia is printed as evidence of paid postage.