Neopost web-enabled stamps or Neopostage is a

postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...

that is part of the family of

computerized postage A postage meter or franking machine is a mechanical device used to create and apply physical evidence of postage (or franking) to mailed items. Postage meters are regulated by a country's postal authority. A postage meter imprints an amount of ...

. These stamps were developed by

Neopost Quadient is an international company specialized in mailing equipment, business process automation and customer experience management. It was originally founded as Neopost. As of 2019, the company had about 5,693 employees and annual sales of € ...

Online and

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military techn ...

Corporation. The joint effort resulted in an innovative self-service stamp vending system. Neopost Online is a US subsidiary of Neopost Inc. Testing of this system was authorized by the United States Postal Service (USPS) in March 2001. The self-service stamp vending system allowed consumers to: # Touch a display screen to activate the kiosk. # Peruse through a variety of stamp denominations and quantities for purchase. # Select the desired purchase. # Swipe credit card information to submit the purchase order. The kiosk then: # Logs on the centrally located database to get credit card authorization. # Awaits approval of purchase from a centrally located database. # Receives purchasing authorization information from the centrally located database.. # Prints the purchasing and stamp information onto adhesive paper (from roll or individual sheets). # Dispenses the stamp sheets to the consumer. The ability to peruse, request, authorize, print, and dispense a stamp purchase using the Internet made these the world's first browser-based stamps. The Neopost web-enabled stamps are listed in

Scott catalogue The Scott catalogue of postage stamps, published by Scott Publishing Company, now a subsidiary of Amos Media, is updated annually and lists all the stamps of the world that its editors recognize as issued for postal purposes. It is published in f ...

(Specialized Version) under ''Computer Vended Postage'' section with several unlisted varieties.

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