9 Postal scales; apparatuses for monitoring postal franking; bar-code readers; software for managing the sending of mail (letters, dispatches, newspapers, parcels), the franking thereof, and the processing of all the corresponding documents; apparatus, instruments, members and devices for generating, calculating, monitoring, inputting, storing, converting, processing, sampling, transmitting, switching, and receiving data, information, signals or messages relating to processing mail, shipping, and to the accounting of the costs related thereto; computers and peripherals therefor, and in particular printers; postage stamp meters; and parts therefor