office i e 1 00 and a united states postal indicia 50 fig1 b on the mail 41 for that portion of the delivery cost that is attributable to the usps i e 0 54 there will also appear on mail 41 a number 15 that is an indexed count of the number of authorized business reply mail that the mailer is willing to accept and the expiration date 52 oct 31 2003 that the mailer who owns the postage meter 130 131 will pay for the returned international business reply mail the mailer 39 s postage meter 130 131 may have reported an expected business reply response factor for mail 41 i e 4 of the number 16 fig1 a it would be obvious to one skilled in the art that the expected business reply response factor may be any number greater than 0 and equal to or less than 100 thus for batch 054 the royal mail and the usps may expect to process 8000 0 04 320 mail 41 by oct 31 2003 thus meter 130 131 may be charged a set aside of 1 54 320 492 80 for the expected mailing of mail 41 meter 130 131 will also notify remote data center 132 that is located in the united.