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Improved access to information will improve decision making

Lanham, MD, April 11, 2005 — Group 1 Software, Inc., a Pitney Bowes Company (NYSE:PBI), today announced that The Consortium has chosen Data Flow, Group 1's data quality, integration and enrichment technology, to further refine its corporate strategy. The Consortium, an award-winning procurement and fulfillment business, will use Data Flow to facilitate the production of management reports, predict spend patterns, estimate discount profitability, and analyze product campaign performance.

The Consortium services 25,000 establishments in the United Kingdom's education, training and social care sectors, providing stationery, furniture, office and business equipment, fleet management, food contracting, energy and janitorial supplies.

“We recognized the need to integrate our different IT systems in order to exploit the information that was contained within them,” commented Neil Jones, The Consortium Project Manager. “Group 1's Data Flow technology provides us with a much clearer and deeper view of product sales and of our customers. We are impressed by the ease of usability and depth of capability of the Data Flow technology. Combined with the excellent technical and marketing knowledge of Group 1's consultants, Group 1's solution has put us in a strong position to translate valuable data into business profits,” Jones concluded.

“Now that we use Data Flow, we are no longer taking shots in the dark,” added Rob Stafford, Finance Director at The Consortium. “We are anticipating significant payback on this project from improved decision making.”

“We are very excited to be working with The Consortium,” said Andrew Greenyer, Director of Customer Service Solutions at Group 1 Software Europe Ltd. “This is an excellent example of how forward thinking companies are beginning to see the tangible business benefits of integrating different data streams and integrating their on-line/offline operations.”

Group 1 Software, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes, develops software that provides an integrated Customer Communication Management (CCM) solution, which maximizes the value of customer data and improves the effectiveness of customer communications. Group 1 Software's solutions are an essential component of enterprise applications, serving to consolidate, cleanse and enrich corporate data, and generate personalized business documents for multi-channel delivery, customer care and efficient business processing. The Company's solutions are utilized by over 3,500 organizations worldwide in the financial services/banking, GIS/mapping, retail, telecommunications, utilities, insurance and other industries, including Entergy, GEICO, L.L. Bean, MapQuest, QVC, Siemens, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo.

Group 1 Software, Group 1 and DataFlow are trademarks or registered trademarks of Group 1 Software, Inc. All other brand names, trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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