Pitney Bowes Reviews

My experience with Pitney Bowes has been extremely frustrating. I have been trying to get help resolving issues with my account, including being unable to properly refill my postage meter, but my requests have repeatedly been ignored. What is especially disappointing is that opening a case does not seem to lead to an actual resolution. You can submit case after case, explain the problem repeatedly, and still have the case dropped or closed without the underlying issue being resolved. It feels like the goal is to close the case rather than actually help the customer.

PB customer service has been transferred overseas. There is essentially no customer service. Not one contact on this side of the Atlantic. The lease terms are very hard to cancel, huge fines for opting out early. Would not at all recommend.

This is the worst company we've ever dealt with. Send payment check and every single time, they claim payment received one day AFTER due date and charge late fee of $41 plus for sending an invoice it's another $5.00. A total rip off. Then has audacity to want you to sign a lease contract a YEAR before the current one ends. Just waiting for end of lease so never have to deal with this company again.

My first (I think) experience with Pitney Bowes has been a hoot. It was for a simple 4x6 photo print that the website now simultaneously claims is “awaiting carrier pickup” and (for the past seven days) is “out for delivery.” You can’t be this bad without trying.

The machine notified me that it needed sealing solution refilled. Right away I entered an order. Ridiculously expensive at $136 for (4) pints. Anyways, it takes (2) weeks to get the order. Meanwhile, I have a ton of mail for (2) weeks where the envelopes need to be sealed by hand. (2) faults with Pitney Bowes: 1. their pricing is obscene. 2. their customer service is non-existent - click on the icon on their website and you get "oops, seems like this page doesn't exist". Meanwhile, BBB gives them A+. Of course they do because they give all behemoths a stellar rating.

If I could rate a negative, that's what Pitney Bowes would get. They do not care about their customers, and customer service is horrible!! They also made change months ago and removed customer's banking information to pay invoices online through their site and they also stopped emailing customers to notify of an invoice. They're also invoicing for a paper bill when we've not received a paper bill in years! We currently have two leased machines and Purchase Power accounts. If you need a postage service, look elsewhere!

A while back I ordered some stuff that was shipped through this company and it took approximately four months to receive and I posted a review about the poor shipping quality and then I received emails from this place demanding that I take my review down and even threatening to hit me with a lawsuit and I stood my ground and didn't remove my honest experience with my package being held up and delayed all those months and honestly this company doesn't deserve any stars...

Why is this predatory company allowed to practice this way? They have horrible, horrendous customer service. If you order supplies, they charge you for shipping even if you just want it mailed, there is no regular mail. They charge late fees even when you are not late. If you call customer service, you can't understand the person you are talking to. These people should not be allowed to do business. They are the worst company I have ever dealt with. Be happy when there is no mailing. Other than electronic.

Disaster of service. Mix of packages. Lost packages. And no customer service. DIsaster.

My husband owned a small tax business and had just signed a three year contract with Pitney Bowes. He recently passed away and we have shut his small business down. I've reached out to Pitney Bowes to inform them that my husband is now deceased and that the business is has closed, and I'd like to cancel the contract and get a refund for the over three hundred dollars of postage credit that was just added to the machine. I was told by their representative that death is not a good enough reason for them to cancel the contract. They said they will not refund the postage credit unless I send them over a thousand dollars to pay off the balance of the contract.

I have a mail station postage machine, it keeps freezing and every time it freezes I lose money / funds off my account. When calling support the automated phone menu is the single most annoying thing I have experienced all year, it's slow and thinks it has to explain each choice. Customer Service agents have such thick accents it's almost impossible to understand them. And expect to get disconnected. The waiting music pierces your brain to temporary insanity. Dealing with Pitney Bowes support will make you question all your life choices to this point.

Pitney Bowes will do nothing but charge you late fees, and then late fees on your late fees and tell you not to send checks they won't get there in time. Then be very very rude to you when you ask about getting out of your contract, & then more & more fees to get out of the contract. Please never sign a contract with them, maybe greed doesn't always have to win.

I’m not trying to be snarky, but can we honestly give this zero stars? I'm just trying to keep it honest, and 1 star is far too generous. I just set everything up and it was going smoothly at first. The issue started when I added the card I wanted to use to fund the account. As soon as I submitted the card details, I got a message saying the card was inactive, with instructions to contact customer service if it was still showing “inactive” after 24 hours.

The worst vendor I have ever dealt with in 30 years of running a law practice. Do NOT do NOT sign on with this company. Terrible customer service, no phone number to call, faulty machines, no way to extract yourself from the contract. Almost Kafkaesque in their horrible customer service, not sure how they continue to fool people

I work for a company that does a large volume of work with Pitney Bowes. They have interrupted our service numerous times. Payments always made on time by our company. Anytime you try to call customer service, all reps are busy helping others. You have the option to leave a message or stay on the line. If you leave a message no one ever calls you back. I called first thing when they opened at 9am. And received ALL REPS ARE BUSY. TERRIBLE SERVICE.

As an eBay shopper, many sellers use this terrible service. On 3 instances now, I have had a problem with this service. On 2 occasions, the item never arrived. On the other issue, the post office just delivered the postage label! Where is the package, people!!! The Seller all disputed the problems and I did get my money back. However, under no circumstances will I ever do business with any Seller that wants to scam me using Pitney Bowes.

Sales tricked my 83 year old mother to a 10 year contract!! She was never able to use the machine. Refused to cancel her contract (mom is now 87) continue to send her a bill for the contract cancelation. Months later sent the return box for the machine. You cannot get ANYONE on the phone. Now they turned it over to a collection agency. HORRIBLE COMPANY!!!

I have had a Pitney Bowes postage meter for over 30 years and I am now ready to quit them. Up until I stupidly renewed my lease on my current equipment, a Sendpro C about 1.5 years ago, I had a DM100 and it worked great. The ink was way overpriced, but I put up with that. Customer service was OK, repairs were done in a reasonable time frame.

This company has been a constant issue for my business. Between there ALWAYS being a technical issue with their devicehub, the way their refund system works, the technical support team, it's absolutely ridiculous. Why do I need to mail you 2 pieces of paper and pay for ANOTHER stamp to get a refund on a stamp that NEVER printed due to an error from your APP? Why is it that if I don't consistently contact your support team I never hear back from them? I waited 3 weeks for an issue to be fixed and it still wasn't fixed all while I'm the one contacting them. This is a BUSINESS account. I rely on this account to do business. All of the technical issues caused me to fall behind on so much work all to come to nothing because it was never fixed.

I had ordered an item. It was coming from Colorado. I live in Ohio. After 22 days I still haven't received my package. I still haven't. I've received packages from Japan in 4 days. Pitney Bowes couldn't get me a package from Colorado in more than 3 weeks? This isn't the first time I've had issues waiting on packages from them. I can't understand why sellers use this company.

Pitney Bowes needs to be put out of business. I hope they get some competition, any competition will due. They fail in every way that makes anyone want to stick around. NO help over the phone. Instead, you get a ride down the recording tree only to find yourself being advised to go online and resolve your own issues. NO help in the chat, instead you get a robot programed to repeat irrelevant info. They take 12-15 days to process a payment so they can charge you a late fee. They LOVE fees and find any place to squeeze them in. They charge waaay too much for ink cartridges. They offer rewards points that you can't use. There is nothing positive I can say about them.

I terminated the lease on my Pitney Bowes machine, which in and of itself was not an easy process and it was quite expensive. There was $178.60 in my prepaid postage account. I called and then had to to a chat to try to understand how I get a refund of my money. Instead of providing any real assistance, I just get redirected to links that will allow me to get my refund. BTW, I had to go through 7 menus on the phone before they terminated the call (with no human help) and then 8 back and forth with their chat AI before I got a human (?) to deal with this. Absolutely appalling customer service. Pitney Bowes is an awful company to deal with.

Very bad company. Go to sign in and ask for account number. Never got one and call customer service. They can’t help you without account number. Can’t reset it. Very bad English. Asked for manager and then they say bye to you.

This company is untruthful and deceptive at every turn. I was told I HAD to have a new meter and was receiving phone calls almost daily harassing me about this in April of last year. Turns out the new regulation was not until December 31, 2025. I was duped into signing a 66 month lease that I didn't need, then told I had to have a prepaid account of at least $100. They never used this prepaid account to fill my meter. All postage was paid by my credit card, yet they charged me $5/mo fee to have this prepaid account which was not even tied to my meter. It took 47 minutes on the phone to get this money refunded and the prepaid account closed. They couldn't/wouldn't even put the $$ on my meter!!! Customer service is horrible, reps speak very broken English and every question you ask they have to put you on hold & transfer you from person to person. Such a waste of time & money. AVOID WORKING WITH THIS COMPANY IF YOU CAN!

If I could rate a half a star I would. Probably heard this before. Poor, unknowledgeable customer service. Please someone make a company that can compete with this. Simple questions go unanswered. And East Coast hours is a disservice to the West Coast.

Absolutely the WORST company to deal with. The reps are deceptive and the customer service is abysmal. We have literally had a post-it placed in plain view listing the exact date we can terminate the contract. There is currently $83.42 postage on our machine and it will not print. It has already stolen at least $100 in postage with machine malfunctions - which the have Never returned to us.

I tried the free trial and was very disappointed. Adding and paying for postage is easy, but getting a refund for unused postage is almost impossible. They claim “100% refundable,” but the process is unclear, the refund option is hard to find, and support is slow and unhelpful. It took one day with many phone calls, many hours waiting on the line to talk to the billing department to be confirmed the refund. In short: It’s simple to give them your money, but extremely hard to get it back.

We have been a customer of Pitney Bowes for +/- 10 years. Our opinion on Pitney Bowes was originally neutral -- customer service seemed offshored and subpar, and the website was previously full of glitches. But through the years our meters mostly worked fine, and we did not need much support. Our current feelings are that we cannot in good conscience recommend that prospective postage meter customers choose Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes now requires its customers to maintain over $500 in a "reserve account" in order to avoid extra fees associated with purchasing postage. A customer must literally hand over funds to Pitney Bowes in excess of $500, and those funds cannot ever be used for anything without a monthly penalty fee for dropping below $500.

Pitney Bowes is a monopolizing overpriced company. Requires you to use their ink when others on market worked fine for years until they read through our meter of a different ink & remotely shut off your meter until we bought it from them at 2x the price. Yes they can read through your meter & yes they can shut off your meter. That's a monopoly. If you find a number to call you never reach anyone that speaks English unless you want to buy something. Probably not in the US. Looking for another postage meter company.

I do not recommend using Pitney Bowes at all. Their website is NOT user-friendly and doesn't provide you with easy access to a phone number or chat box to talk to a live person. I DESPISE the bot/virtual assistant option. Customer service gets an "F" for this reason. Reaching a human with Pitney Bowes is almost impossible and very aggravating. And when you do reach someone, they are not located in the United States which makes understanding the customer service representative quite difficult. It is not the customer service representative's fault; but I feel certain if I were to call to cancel our services that Pitney Bowes would quickly connect me with someone in the United States to speak with. I will be looking for an alternative to using Pitney Bowes immediately.

Our business has been with PitneyBowes for more than a year for a postage meter, it has been bumpy ride since the first day. At first, there was an additional hidden insurance cost which never been mentioned to us when we were promoted to lease this equipment. During the lease term, the refill of postage is always problematic. Both the website and meter are NOT working for refilling the postage at all. Every time we have to issue a support ticket to solve it. Still, it is NOT working properly now. They seem give a credit amount for you for the postages to print, but are always hungary to force you to pay earlier so they have a better cash flow. I understand it as a business owner but if we are forced to pay earlier, then the credit amount is useless! It is just a tricky hook - using a lie to attract new customer.

They wanted a new contract in 2024. I told them I was closing in 6 mo. They said I could just call and cancel....which was a lie. They do not let you cancel. I've done biz with them 35 years. They expect a full payment on a contract that I don't believe they needed. It is a bucket shop...they do not have public relations.... They merely intend to screw you over with fine print.

Worst company I have ever dealt with. They illegally allowed one of my employees to sign a contract for 3 YEARS at a terrible cost. Then, they completely refuse to work with me at all and threaten to send me to collections. What they do is criminal and they should be investigated for shady business practices. On top of it, you cannot talk to anyone at the company and even making payments if difficult. Definitely a predatory company.

Pitney Bowes has some of the worst billing practices I’ve ever seen. We pay all invoices by check (per our corporate policy), and they receive our payments on time. Yet, instead of applying them right away, their accounting department holds checks for 10–15 days “to ensure they clear” before crediting our account. This delay causes unnecessary late fees, which they then hide behind their “terms and conditions” to justify.

The customer service is horrible. The stamp machine is a slow process, and you can have more stamps instead of paying for a machine that is not worth it. The cartridges are also $100 a piece and they don't last long either, again, you could have had more stamps instead. NOT WORTH IT AT ALL!

Required our company to immediately pay a $.01 cent balance by credit card or they would cut off our service. Did not give us an option of paying on the next invoice. We do NOT have a previous history of unpaid bills. It took 3 hours of our staff time in dealing with Pitney Bowes to process the $.01 credit card transaction. We are looking for a new vendor and will leave Pitney Bowes immediately upon finding new service. They are losing the business of 3 offices over $.01 and they don't seem to care.

I was on the receiving end of a package. The tracking said it was delivered. It didn't show up until a day later. I think it's terrible that a tracked item would be marked by the shipper that something is delivered when it's NOT DELIVERED!

Worst company to get response from a live person. The contract renewal letter is sent but no one to help you to send back the equipment if we do not want to renew. It's only voicemail which will hang up on you without helping. They should be sued!

Unit never worked, will only work hard lined even though it's a "Wireless unit". 2 hours of continued support online, and NO ONE TO TALK TO to help you. Good luck getting through to someone in USA. All calls transferred to India. Tech support is non existent. I got the unit delivered on day 1, day 2 I returned it. Worthless, useless, horrible for small business. Find another service provider. As I write this email and cancelling my "Free" contract, it's been a week and still no return labels. And I am STILL WASTING MY TIME trying to find someone to talk to just to send the unit back. Very unprofessional.

Overpriced. No customer support. 4 year contract. Lick stamps …. This machine is sooo not worth it. Whole process is cumbersome and will frustrate you beyond words. I was stuck with this contract and machine or I would chunk it out the window. Horrible customer support.