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Pitney Bowes Receives Strong Positive Rating in Leading Industry Analyst Firm s MarketScope for ADF 2.0

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  Published in House and Home on Tuesday, December 16th 2008 at 7:34 GMT by Market Wire

STAMFORD, Conn.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) received a Strong Positive rating, the highest possible, from Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. Pitney Bowes received this rating in the report entitled "MarketScope for ADF 2.0 (Automated Document Factory 2.0) Software" by Pete Basiliere and Ken Weilerstein published December 2, 2008.

Gartner considers a company receiving a Strong Positive rating as "a provider of strategic products, services or solutions," and customers should "continue with planned investments," and potential customers should "consider this vendor a strong choice for strategic investments."

Businesses consider optimizing or expanding their ADF operations in order to maximize productivity with higher speeds and increased volume, reduce costs, and improve waste management. More importantly, with state-of-the-art ADF 2.0 technology, business can improve the relevance of their customer communications while ensuring the security, privacy and integrity mandated by federal regulators.

"In a tight economy, Pitney Bowes innovations are helping our clients and prospects to optimize their operations for maximum performance," said Patrick Brand, President, Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies. "There is no better investment than getting the right message to the right customer at the right time."

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes is a mailstream technology company that helps organizations manage the flow of information, mail, documents and packages. Our 36,000 employees deliver technology, service and innovation to more than two million customers worldwide. The company was founded in 1920 and annual revenues now total $6.4 billion. More information is available at [ www.pb.com ].

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The MarketScope is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the MarketScope and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.