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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2005
Gerrit Bleumer, Sohildow, DE;
Gerrit Bleumer, Sohildow, DE;
Francotyp-Postalia GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
In a method for compensation of the first postage value of an unusable printed franking imprint billed in a billing module of a franking arrangement, the occurrence of the unusable franking imprint is detected as a first error event, error information associated with the error event is stored, and information derived from the error information is transmitted to a reimbursement entity for initiation of the reimbursement of the postage value. The error amount information associated with the error event is increased by the postage value and the error amount information is transmitted to the reimbursement entity for initiation of the reimbursement of the postage value.