High-Definition Data Solution Provides Real-Time Territory Assignment Enabling

Insurer to More Quickly Service Agents and Customers, Comply With Regulatory

                                 Requirements

LAS VEGAS, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Group 1 Software, Inc., a Pitney Bowes Company (NYSE: PBI), today announced that Central Mutual Insurance Company has chosen to integrate Group 1's high-definition data solution into its operational policy management system. Group 1's AddressBroker(TM) geocoding solution will automate the underwriting process and enable Central Mutual to base underwriting decisions on highly accurate geographical and customer data to better minimize risk.

Group 1's geocoding solution is designed to enable property and casualty (P&C) insurers, including Central Mutual, to reduce costs, help streamline workflow and help ensure the correct premium assignment to every risk.

"Highly accurate real-time territory assignment is a critical requirement for us as property and casualty insurers," said Mike Guth, vice president, Personal Lines Underwriting, Central Mutual Insurance. "With this capability, which easily integrates into our real-time applications, we will be able to better serve our agents and customers while complying with regulatory requirements."

Group 1 Software's geocoding solution suite offers the most comprehensive, accurate and powerful software solutions for address-level geocoding and business geographics. AddressBroker(TM) is the client/server geocoding solution within Group 1's business geographics suite which offers a range of geographic analysis and enrichment functions. The technology performs geographic coding, address standardization, geographic analysis and demographic enrichment in interactive applications such as call centers and Web-based applications.

"In a competitive world, choosing to implement high-quality, location accuracy geocoding solutions has never been more essential to P&C insurers," said Steve Walden, vice president and general manager, Centrus Division, Group 1 Software. "We are committed to providing our customers with geocoding solutions that help them increase revenue, optimize operational efficiencies, and drive maximum value from customer relationships."

Demonstrations of Group 1 Software's high-definition data solutions, as well as its market leading software for the creation, storage, delivery and support of highly personalized customer communications, can be seen at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum (booth #1001) until May 24, 2006 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About Central Mutual Insurance Companies

Central Mutual (http://www.central-insurance.com) is an A.M. Best A+ rated company, with total combined assets over $1.1 billion. Located in Van Wert, Ohio, Central Mutual has regional offices in Alpharetta, GA, Waltham, Mass., and Irving, TX, and operates through an independent agency network to provide insurance for automobiles, homes, and businesses to more than 275,000 policyholders in 18 states.

About Group 1 Software

Group 1 Software, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc., develops software that provides a comprehensive Customer Communication Management (CCM) solution, which helps to maximize the value of customer data and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customer communications. Group 1 Software's solutions are an essential component of enterprise applications, serving to consolidate, cleanse and enrich corporate data, and generate personalized business documents for multi-channel delivery, customer care and efficient business processing. The company's solutions are utilized by 6,000 organizations worldwide in the insurance, GIS/mapping, utilities, financial services/banking, retail, telecommunications and other industries, including Central Mutual, Homesite, Entergy, L.L. Bean, Microsoft, QVC, Siemens, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo.

  AddressBroker, Group 1, and Group 1 Software are trademarks or registered
                     trademarks of Group 1 Software, Inc.

         All other trademarks are property of the respective owners.

    Media Contact:
    Colette Cote
    Pitney Bowes Inc.
    (203) 570 6061
    Colette.Cote@pb.com


SOURCE  Pitney Bowes Inc.
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    /CONTACT:  Colette Cote of Pitney Bowes Inc., +1-203-570-6061,
Colette.Cote@pb.com/
    /Web site:  http://www.pb.com
                http://www.central-insurance.com /
    (PBI)

CO:  Pitney Bowes Inc.; Group 1 Software, Inc.; Central Mutual Insurance
     Company
ST:  Nevada
IN:  CPR STW FIN INS
SU:  TDS

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