NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 24, 2000--Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) will spotlight a broad array of innovative, web-based solutions at this year's Fall Internet World at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, October 25 - 27.

The company's Cyber Cafe (booth #2305) will provide an opportunity for businesses of all sizes to sample solutions that help bridge the physical and e-business environments. And, according to Pitney Bowes Chairman and CEO Michael J. Critelli, that is what enhances the value of Pitney Bowes' products and services in the global economy.

"Pitney Bowes understands that businesses need help bridging the physical and electronic environments. That's because in order to reach all of their customers, who may be operating at different points along the physical and virtual continuum, they must seamlessly integrate both paper-based and digital technologies into their business processes," said Critelli.

Featured at the Pitney Bowes Cyber Cafe are an array of solutions that help businesses manage the processes that grow their business; such as acquiring and retaining customers, fulfilling orders and managing desktop messaging, transactions and cash flow. The company will provide a first-hand look at its broad range of web-based products, from secure e-mail and digital document delivery, to online bill presentment and payment, to online shipping and logistics and Internet postage. On display at Pitney Bowes Cyber Cafe:

• Cypress Knowledge Delivery Architecture(R), a system that allows customers to instantly distribute any document or report from any legacy system to the Internet.

• Digital Document Delivery (D3), a powerful modular system that facilitates electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) and electronic statement presentment (ESP) enrollment, data extraction, presentment, payment, remittance posting and reporting functions.

• PBShip, the web-based enterprise solution that manages expedited document and package shipping at the desktop across multiple users and multiple locations.

• Pitney Bowes iSend(TM) On-Line Document Delivery System, an end-to-end web-based service for secure and reliable e-mail and electronic document delivery.

• PitneyEscrow, a state-of-the-art online escrow service dedicated to helping businesses execute high-end web-based transactions conducted with confidence and assuring the highest level of security.

• PitneyWorks, web-based solutions for small businesses including shipping, financial and marketing services as well as Internet postage.

Pitney Bowes Inc. is a $4.4 billion provider of informed mail and total messaging management. Through a suite of solutions that manage mission-critical communications activities, the company is helping its customers bridge the physical and e-business environments. For more information on Pitney Bowes products, services and solutions, contact the company's web site at www.pitneybowes.com.

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