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    STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 1999--Pitney Bowes Management Services (PBMS), a division of Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI), announced that PBMS employee Robert Garofalo of Putnam Valley, NY, has been named to the Careers & the disABLED magazine's annual "Employee of the Year" list.

Criteria for selection to the magazine's list includes: the individual's contribution to the disability community; the technical and professional accomplishments made by the individual; how he or she has advocated for the betterment of workers, supervisors and managers with disabilities; and how the employee has made other individuals more aware of the needs of people with disabilities.

Mr. Garofalo, a Customer Service Technical Specialist at one of the many business support operations PBMS manages for businesses across North America, was honored at a ceremony in Anaheim, CA at the Abilities Expo, the largest display in the United States of products and services for people with disabilities.

Mr. Garofalo started his career with PBMS in 1988 in support of PBMS' first customer, IBM. He worked in the mail center, operating inserters and small offset duplicators. Mr. Garofalo was then promoted to an IBM on-site location in 1993 and quickly became an integral part of the mailroom operations there. Despite his hearing and speech impairments, Mr. Garofalo interacts with customers and coworkers on a daily basis contributing to the many functions the PBMS department performs. In addition to working in the mailroom, he acts a key player in the shipping and receiving department, as well as the reprographics department.

"Pitney Bowes has created an environment in which all employees can excel. Bob's award by the Careers & the disABLED magazine reflects the skills, enthusiasm and work ethic he brings to the job year after year, and we are proud of his selection," said David Rupert, President, Pitney Bowes Management Services.

PBMS is a premier provider of world-class mail and document management outsourcing solutions for the creation, distribution and storage of documents and messages in both paper and digital form. Customers leverage a comprehensive, diverse portfolio of on-site or off-site capabilities, including: mail and message management, reprographics, facsimile, records, electronic document management services, print-on-demand and electronic distribute-then-print solutions, as well as business recovery services and document factory solutions. PBMS' proven knowledge and experience in process, analysis, design, critical measurement tools and engineering of business support functions is brought to the customer through it's proprietary Standards and Best Practices (S&BP).

Pitney Bowes Inc. is a $4.2 billion global provider of informed mail and messaging management. For more information about the company, please visit our Web site at: www.pitneybowes.com.

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     CONTACT: Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford
              John O'Mahoney
              203/326-6170

     KEYWORD: CONNECTICUT
     INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED PUBLISHING