STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000--

PitneyWorks.com to Provide Visa Business Cardholders with Benefits

and Savings on Small Business Mailing and Direct Marketing Services

Through New PartnerAdvantage Program

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced a strategic agreement with Visa U.S.A., another milestone in the company's growth plans to accelerate activity in the small business market. Under the terms of the agreement, PitneyWorks.com, the company's small business Internet product and service group, will be the exclusive mailing, shipping and direct marketing services provider for the Visa Business PartnerAdvantage program.

All Visa Business cardholders will be entitled to the PartnerAdvantage exclusive and ongoing benefits and savings when they purchase PitneyWorks.com services using their Visa Business card. Cardholders can save 10-25% on a number of PitneyWorks.com services, including ClickStamp(TM) Online Internet postage, online direct mail and marketing services and secure online message delivery services.

"From our research, we know the number one concern of small business owners is getting and keeping customers. PitneyWorks.com mailing, marketing and messaging solutions help them build, manage and fulfill the customer relationships that are the lifeblood of their business," said Elise DeBois, president of PitneyWorks.com. "We're offering the millions of small business owners who are Visa Business cardholders special pricing on the online mailing and direct marketing services that facilitate their everyday transactions."

"We are pleased to have PitneyWorks.com as our provider of mailing and direct marketing services to small businesses," said Michael Souza, vice president of small business products and services, Visa U.S.A. "This is the most recent development in a series of collaborations between two respected brands -- Pitney Bowes and Visa -- to deliver the products and services small businesses want in the way that owners want to get them."

Small business owners can take advantage of the Visa PartnerAdvantage program by visiting www.visa.com/partneradvantage. In addition, PitneyWorks.com has created and designed its own exclusive web page to help site visitors learn more about services available and how to use their Visa Business card relationship to acquire access to PitneyWorks.com mailing and direct marketing services located at www.pitneyworks.com/visa.

About Visa

Visa U.S.A. is the leading payment brand and the largest payment system in the United States, with more volume than all other major payment cards combined. Visa plays a pivotal role in advancing new payment products and technologies to benefit its more than 14,000 U.S. member financial institutions and their cardholders. There are more than 330 million Visa credit, commercial and check cards, which generate more than $720 billion in annual transaction volume. Visa-branded cards are accepted at over 17 million locations worldwide, including some 625,000 ATMs in the Visa/PLUS Global ATM Network. Visa's Internet address is www.visa.com.

About PitneyWorks.com

Pitney Bowes Inc. is a $4.4 billion global provider of informed mail and messaging management solutions. PitneyWorks.com is the group within Pitney Bowes that is dedicated to providing Internet product and service offerings to small businesses.

-- ClickStamp(TM) Internet postage solutions allow users to generate, address and print postage directly from their printers: ClickStamp(TM) Online is for small business owners who want to download and print postage while online; ClickStamp Plus(TM), which will soon be available to small business owners, is for those who want to download postage from the Internet to a secure vault attached to their PC, and print as needed;

-- ValueShip(TM), an Internet-based tool that determines the most cost-effective and timely way to ship a package;

-- DirectNET(TM), a "one stop" Internet-based printing and mailing services; DirectNET(TM) provides customers with free template software to help them design mail pieces which can then be sent online to Pitney Bowes with a mailing list for printing, addressing and mailing anywhere in the U.S. within three business days;

-- TargetProspects(TM), an Internet-based tool that provides lists of pre-qualified customers to small businesses; and

-- iSend(TM), a secure Internet document delivery solution that allows business users to control and protect the delivery of important, time-sensitive documents.

For more information on the PitneyWorks.com suite of small business solutions, visit www.pitneyworks.com.

CONTACT: PitneyWorks.com

             Amina O'Farrell, 203-326-6148
             ofarream@pb.com
                 or
             Cunningham Communication, Inc.
             Ruth Bernstein, 617-494-8202
             rbernstein@cunningham.com