Franking system for commercial shipping and delivery enterprise, has processor executing software to do postage and addressing function and accessing address database in external database to update addresses selected for printing

摘要

The system has a franking meter (1) with a security device (12) and a printer (3) to apply shipping charge indicium and address to a mail item. A control processor (4) executes software from memory to accomplish postage and addressing function. The processor accesses address database in an external database to check and update addresses selected for printing. An interlink accesses address data in the external database. An independent claim is also included for a method of operating a franking system.