A method and system of providing postage wherein delivery fee discounts
are provided based on one or more sorting levels in which mail pieces are
run through the system twice. In the first run, postal codes are obtained
from the mail pieces, a running tally for each participating sorting
level code in each sorting level is kept, and for each code in the
highest sorting level that has a tally that reaches a predetermined
minimum, an indicium reflecting the highest discount is printed on: (i)
the mail piece whose postal code caused the tally to reach the minimum,
and (ii) any mail pieces to that postal code that are processed
thereafter. In the second run, for each mail piece not having a printed
indicium, an indicium is printed which reflects a proper sorting level
discount, if any, based on the postal code obtained therefrom and one or
more of the tallies.