Pitney Bowes docSense Teams with U.S. Bank
for a Series of EBPP Seminars

October 10, 2001 -- Pitney Bowes docSense (NYSE: PBI), a leading provider of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) software and services, and U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB), a leading financial services company, will begin a series of fall seminars on the benefits of EBPP on October 23 at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The full schedule of events is as follows:

• October 23 at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• October 24, 2001 at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri
• October 25, 2001 at the Embassy Suites O'Hare in Chicago, Illinois
• November 14, 2001 at The Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon
• November 15, 2001 at the Omni Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio
• November 28, 2001 at the Hilton Suites in Nashville, Tennessee

Pitney Bowes docSense and U. S. Bank have designed these seminars to create a greater understanding and awareness of EBPP for customers of U.S. Bank's Treasury Management service. Each informative seminar features presentations from EBPP thought leaders.

"It is important that leading solutions providers educate the marketplace on the benefits and savings that a well-considered, carefully constructed digital presentment strategy can provide," said Karl Schumacher, president of Pitney Bowes docSense.

"Our fall seminar series is intended to address these benefits while educating attendees on the key issues in the business to consumer EBPP market," said Jeff Jones, senior vice president of treasury management for U.S. Bank.

Pitney Bowes is a $4 billion global provider of integrated mail, messaging and document management solutions headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The company serves over two million businesses of all sizes in more than 130 countries through dealer and direct operations. Pitney Bowes docSense is the global premier solutions provider for the creation and distribution of efficient and effective documents in paper and digital form. For more information on docSense, please visit http://docsense.com