STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2001--

Global Mailing Systems debuts Desktop Express(TM) Shipping

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Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced that it will showcase a variety of integrated mail and document management solutions for businesses of all sizes at the National Postal Forum - booths # 1064, 1082 and 1056, March 25 - 28, in Orlando, Florida.

The company will feature leading-edge solutions for high-volume mailing, document management and delivery, data quality, electronic bill presentment and payment and desktop shipping

Pitney Bowes' Global Mailing Systems will feature electronic delivery confirmation of USPS Priority Mail(R) with demonstrations of the DM Series(TM) and Ascent(TM) product as well as a business session partnering with the USPS on Monday afternoon. The company's Document Messaging Technologies (DMT) division will feature solutions that improve in-house data quality, offer maximum postal savings for customers, provide state-of-the-art electronic statement presentment, and enable users to customize applications for 1:1 marketing programs.

"The business landscape has evolved to the point where providing high-value customer communications solutions is key to successful customer relationship management," said Michael J. Critelli, Chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes. "Our customer-centric approach to business, coupled with our unparalleled expertise in mail and document management, have made Pitney Bowes the leader in helping customers manage their message, manage their money and manage their business."

Pitney Bowes solutions featured at National Postal Forum include:

• Advanced mail processing equipment, including two high-speed, high-volume mail transaction processors. Incorporated in these systems is a generic application for processing credit card invoices that enables personalization for 1:1 marketing programs, and software solutions that offer cost control options such as shop floor reporting and remote site monitoring of shop floor operations.

• Pitney Bowes' Desktop Express(TM), a desktop software product that eliminates paper airbills and gives users the ability to compare services and prices to better manage, track and allocate costs for expedited and critical documents and package deliveries.

• Return Mail Workstation from Pitney Bowes docSense, an in-house data quality system that increases the accuracy and value of user databases with its unique data verification and correction capabilities. Other featured product offerings from docSense include its Mailing Efficiency and Data Quality suite of solutions for maximum postal savings; Digital Document Delivery (D3)(TM), a state-of-the-art electronic statement presentment solution; and Site View, a web-enabled vendor-neutral job tracking system that enables users to monitor software and equipment used throughout the entire print production process.

• Pitney Bowes Incoming Messaging Solutions' (IMS) expanded product line, which includes the Olympus high volume inbound mail sorter and the VoiceSort System, which uses voice recognition technology for automated address location. The company's recent acquisition of MailCode, which developed and marketed both the Olympus and VoiceSort products, complements IMS' existing M3(TM) Mixed Mail Manager product line to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes.

Pitney Bowes Inc. is a $4 billion global provider of integrated mail and document management solutions headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The company serves over 2 million businesses of all sizes in more than 130 countries through dealer and direct operations. For additional information about Pitney Bowes, please visit our website at www.pitneybowes.com.

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