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Abstract

A device and a method for mail piece acceptance; with a mail item feed for mail pieces; with a user interface and with a accounting unit; with a card reader with cover plate into whose slit a postage credit card or an authorization card can be inserted; wherein after the settling the postage fee by the accounting unit a storage in secured storage containers in the storage region ensues; wherein the mail item feed is equipped with an adjustable opening of a feed shaft for depositing and for drawing in a mail piece; wherein the mail piece is an element of a set of mail pieces whose dimensions can be different; and the mail piece acceptance device has a number of devices for scanning the mail piece surface, for automatic position alignment of the mail piece, for transport, for printing a marking on the mail piece and for storage of the mail piece; wherein for storage a deflection of each of the mail pieces to a specific storage container ensues, which storage container is dimensioned corresponding to a size-accurate collection of mail pieces. The variable size of the adjustable opening of the mail item feed is set corresponding to the cost features input by the user.

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