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Its clients — which include most Fortune 500 companies — realized something was wrong when they had trouble using the company’s postage meters and some of its e-commerce shipping services.

In the 1940s she took a job at Pitney-Bowes, at the time a postage meter company and a landmark Stamford employer.

But postage meters are a tougher sell these days as banking, billing, advertising and just about everything companies used to send by mail goes online.

The Fool responds: The growth of electronic communications has dealt a blow to the king of postage meters.

The study is being underwritten by Pitney Bowes, a Connecticut company that makes postage meters, shipping software and other equipment for business mailers.