PROVIDING POSTAGE THROUGH ELECTRONIC POSTAGE

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
THE WAY THINGS SHOULD GO	STAMPS.COM INC.	1990 E. Grand Ave. El Segundo CA 90245	providing postage through electronic postage services, namely, applying postage in the form of a digitally-generated 2 dimensional bar code and text to documents for the purpose of mailing and shipping; distributorship services featuring the retail sale of office supplies, office equipment, postal and mailing related equipment, clothing and general consumer goods, including electronic products, movies, compact discs, books, computers, computer software, and computer peripherals; business management and consultation services in the field of postal mailings, package shipment, tracking, and management, and development, enhancement, and integration of company-wide mailing, shipping, and receiving of letters, parcels, packages, other similar items;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

In a postage payment system, a secure integrated circuit (IC) card is used to manage postage funds, and create encrypted postage indicia. Among other things, the system is capable of performing charge-back accounting of postage expenses and generating mail contents. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, the postage indicia are applied onto selected locations of the mail contents while they are being generated. In the preferred embodiment, each mail content is placed in a window envelope such that the postage indicium on the mail content exposes through a window of the envelope to facilitate inspection of the indicium. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, by including transactional data in addition to the traditional postal data in a postage indicium, the indicium can be used to pay bills, purchase products and services, including any courier service different than the postal service.