Early certification gives customers months to prepare for the next CASS cycle

LANHAM, Md., April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Group 1 Software, Inc. a Pitney Bowes Company (NYSE: PBI) today announced the general availability of the latest release of CODE-1 Plus 3.0 and FINALIST 7.8 CASS(TM) certified address correction solutions. All products help enable organizations to cleanse and standardize addresses and assign 11-digit barcodes to mail pieces in compliance with the USPS(R).

Many of the world's largest postal operations use CODE-1 Plus and Finalist to improve the way postal authorities and commercial mailers handle, process, and deliver mail, enabling mailers to obtain postage discounts in the United States.

Group 1's multiple product releases meet the latest United States Postal Service CASS (USPS Certification Process for ZIP+4(R) matching process) requirements scheduled to go into effect August 1, 2006. In addition to CASS certification, CODE-1 Plus and Finalist address a number of improvements that will benefit Group 1 customers, support for the USPS 4-state barcode OneCode(TM) initiative.

"We are committed to providing our customers with timely updates of CASS software which is crucial to enterprise-wide initiatives," said Kurt Konow, vice president, Product Management, Regulatory Postal Products. "We fully support address quality efforts by the Postal Service(TM), industry and our mutual users."

About Group 1 Software

Group 1 Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes, develops software that provides a comprehensive Customer Communication Management (CCM) solution, which maximizes the value of customer data and helps improve the effectiveness of customer communications. The Company'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. Group 1 Software solutions are utilized by over 3,500 organizations worldwide in the financial services/banking, GIS/mapping, retail, telecommunications, utilities and insurance industries, including Entergy, GEICO, L.L. Bean, MapQuest, QVC, Siemens, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo. For more information about the Company, visit http://www.g1.com.

CODE-1 Plus, Finalist, Group 1 and Group 1 Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of Group 1 Software, Inc. The following trademarks are owned by the United States Postal Service: CASS, CASS Certified, LACSLink, ZIP + 4, OneCode, USPS and United States Postal Service. Group 1, a Pitney Bowes Company, has applied to become a certified Interface Developer for the United States LACSLink product. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

    Contact: Colette Cote
             Pitney Bowes
             (203)351 6132
             Colette.Cote@pb.com


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