Pitney Bowes DM-3 postage meter

1950s-1960s

The Pitney Bowes company introduced their latest advancement in metered mail in 1949 with the official introduction of the Model “DM” (Desk Model) postage meter. Long research and extensive field testing had taken place since 1942. The introduction of this unit opened a vast new market, not only among mailers of modest amounts of mail, both letters and packages, but as auxiliary equipment for larger users as well. The meter is capable of printing on letters and tape as well as printing a postmark ad. The DM was hand operated and had values of one cent, two cents, two and one-half cents through 20 cents. The DM-3 had improved means to set the dater and included an envelope sealer.