METHOD FOR VERIFYING POSTAGE WHEN MOVING POSTAL ARTICLES OVER AN ELECTRONIC PARCEL MAILBOX SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC PARCEL MAILBOX SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THIS METHOD

摘要

A method for verifying postage when moving postal articles over an electronic parcel compartment system, during which non-recurring identification codes are allocated for postage stamps and stored in a storage means which associated status indicators. When a postage stamp with an identification codes is output, the associated status indicator is set to 1, whereas non-allocated identification codes have status indicator 2. In addition, identification codes that had been allocated with a postage stamp that, however, had already served for a delivery of a postal article in a parcel compartment system, are likewise set to status 2. If an identification code, which has not been stored in the storage means or the status indicator thereof is 2, is detected when placing a postal article in a parcel compartment system, a processing means releases a signal. This signal initiates a refusal to accept the postal article and/or initiates a storing of the customer data of the customer who wanted to insert the postal article. The invention also relates to a parcel compartment system for carrying out the disclosed method.