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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Stamps.com Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Iship Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
David Allison Bennett, Bothell, WA (US);
Stamps.com Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
iShip Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods for the computerized generation and printing of a U.S. Postal Service Shipping Label over the Internet that provides postage, shipping address, delivery address, and shipment and delivery tracking indicia. According to the invention, human-readable postage payment indicia is formatted in such a way that the actual price of shipping postage is obscured; postage payment can only be translated from the postage payment indicia by someone who knows the format template. The present invention further provides a United States Postal Service shipping label comprising a representation of paid postage, said representation of paid postage comprising a human-readable character string, said character string comprising imbedded postage price information. The present invention further provides a United States Postal Service shipping label, comprising a machine-readable representation of paid postage and a ship to address.