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Alternate Postage Payment Method for Greeting Cards

An experimental product that provides a means by which individuals can mail greeting cards without affixing postage. The company producing the cards pays postage through a two-stage process. First, at least 50 percent of the postage is paid to USPS based on the company’s reports of how many cards are sold to customers. Once cards are sold to individual customers, this payment is retained by USPS regardless of whether the cards are also mail. The remainder of the postage is collected based on scans of the Intelligent Mail barcodes printed on the card envelopes.