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Pitney Bowes specializes in shipping equipment and services, such as postage meters, parcel management systems and e-commerce logistics services. Since its founding in 1920, Pitney Bowes’ goal has been to streamline mailing and shipping processes for businesses of all sizes.

Pros
  • Reliable delivery service
  • Quick resolution of issues
Cons
  • Frequent billing discrepancies
  • Complicated return process

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    Customer ServiceStaffBilling

    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2026

    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.

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    Sales & MarketingRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2026

    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.

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    Customer ServiceTechSales & MarketingPunctuality & SpeedBilling

    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2026

    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!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceBilling

    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2026

    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.

    Currently, getting any customer service is next to impossible. They changed billing policies charging for anything but direct bank transfers. The postage accounts are now requiring that $500 be kept in the accounts. This is not what I signed up for on a lease. I recommend strongly that anyone should think long and hard before doing any business with Pitney Bowes.

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    Punctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2025

    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.

    As of today my account is closed. Don't get me started on how long it took to close the account, all the hoops you need to jump through!!!! It took over an hour and 3 representatives just to close my account and get a refund for the credit I didn't use. Stay AWAY from this company. I gave this company over 3 years and never again.

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffBilling

    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServicePriceRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 18, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 13, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServicePriceRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceStaffBilling

    Reviewed Nov. 6, 2025

    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!

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    Customer ServiceRates

    Reviewed Oct. 28, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServiceTechStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 1, 2025

    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.

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    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaffBilling

    Reviewed Sept. 11, 2025

    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.

    Two separate Pitney Bowes reps could not manage to justify why Pitney Bowes would need to require that much in held funds from its customers -- it's not a security deposit or held for any particular purpose/use. One of the reps described that Pitney Bowes made the change simply because Pitney Bowes could. All other postage purchasing options besides the $500 minimum reserve account now result in additional fees (e.g., wire transfer, ACH, credit card). A new customer would not necessarily know this until after establishing a lease and attempting to purchase postage for the first time. Customers CAN access the terms and conditions associated with their meter leases by visiting a separate webpage from their actual lease; however, that webpage of terms and conditions only loosely references the possibility of fees being assessed. We did not find out details until our newest lease agreement took effect.

    Fees had not been assessed for postage purchases with our old meters, and it was not expected. We established a reserve account because at that time it was free. Less than two months into our newest lease, new fees were added. A year later, even more new fees were added. In addition to that issue, we now have a concern about their ethics. A Pitney Bowes rep (Marie, supposedly a supervisor) asserted that we were notified in advance via email last year about new fees on our reserve account. She proceeded to admit that Pitney Bowes had used an invalid email address that we did not provide. She could not provide proof that a notification email had been sent to us (at the wrong email address). She could not identify where the incorrect email address originated or who at Pitney Bowes had mistyped it.

    She was able to identify the two correct email addresses that are associated with our current lease agreement and reserve account but could not explain why those were not used. Marie noted that she was removing the invalid email address as a means of contact for us but then insisted that the fees incurred prior to us being notified were still "valid." She asserted that it does not matter whether Pitney Bowes used a made-up contact email for official correspondence, only that an email was sent at all. When pressed, Marie could not provide proof to us that an email had been sent at all (not even to the incorrect email address). Marie asserted that no money would be refunded to our reserve account.

    When asked for her supervisor, Marie insisted that no one in the whole Pitney Bowes company would refund anything to our reserve account no matter how high up the chain. Marie proceeded to reject the notion that Pitney Bowes cannot legally change terms and conditions for its binding contractual agreements without first notifying lessees about those changes. In response, Marie was notified that the facts surrounding our situation would be made available to prospective customers online.

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    Customer ServicePriceRates

    Reviewed Sept. 11, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 4, 2025

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2025

    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.

    Their payment system is alwasy having problem, we have credit attached to the account but they force you to pay using your bank account. When you paid, the amount does not get accounted right away, however, the paid amount has been gone through our bank right away. Only many days after the dues can be cleared, meanwhile you always received a Low Postage Credit Alert. That means we cannot refill postage and cannot print. What the heck! We paid many days ago! They are just on purpose to slowly account paid amount in order to keep their cash flow and slow down our marketing operation. A lot of time, we could not print just because the stupid low postage credit alert. However we actually paid and did not owe any money!! Not to say there is still $1000 credit amount we have available.

    It is a huge trap for this lease. You will be very surprised that all postage used are HSTable, we are never been told this. A big hidden fee! A lot would say you paid hst and you would claim back. If you are really running your busienss you will understand. We should not pay anything we are not meant to pay. See this, you pay the rental fees for the machine, then you havd postage cost, plus the HST, having a psotage meter is way much more expensive than just buying actual postage to use. This is a big lesson to learn. Every time, we are dying to cancel the lease agreement. We are sucked in now and keep paying it! :(

    The worst thing is that their system is NOT working. For example, you refilled $300 postage through the Internet connected meter, you expected that this amount would be sync to the online account. Or you refilled $200 postage online and this amount should be sync to the meter. Then every party is consistent and remain working. They do not. One of most stupid system we have even encounterred in my life. I issued three support tickets, it has never been fixed. For a company like this size, the quality of service is like garage. I have already lost confidence in PitneyBowes. I have paid my lesson and still paying it until the lease end. Just wish you guys do not jump to it. PitneyBowe is not a company to work with easily. Broken system, unfair hidden fees, and slow customer cares, and unprofessional services.

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    Customer ServiceTechBillingHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2025

    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.

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    TechPriceStaffBilling

    Reviewed Aug. 11, 2025

    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.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedBillingTransparency

    Reviewed Aug. 11, 2025

    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.

    To make matters worse, they charged us a $35 late fee in May that was never itemized or shown on any statements until July. Most companies apply payments when they’re received and only add fees if a check bounces, but not Pitney Bowes. We can’t change our payment method, and their repeated suggestions to “just pay online” show a complete lack of customer service or flexibility. If you want fair billing practices and transparency, I would strongly recommend looking elsewhere, such as Quadient.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2025

    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!

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    TechStaffBilling

    Reviewed July 28, 2025

    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.

    Invoice# Amount Original Due Date
    ######## 0.01 11.12.2024

    You must make a payment immediately to prevent your meter from being locked and avoid further collections action.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 14, 2025

    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!

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    Reviewed July 9, 2025

    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!

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    Reviewed June 12, 2025

    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.

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    TechPriceValue

    Reviewed June 9, 2025

    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.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2025

    On 6/5/2025 I tried reaching Pitney Bowes due to a faulty postage machine they had leased to us. There is no way to talk to a person at Pitney Bowes about our faulty machine. When you call their phone number and request technical support their automated system just gives you a URL and ask you to hang up. If you go to the URL it asks you to go through the steps and order a new print FREE print head by clicking a link (I didn't need a new print head because I already had one but that is the next step that you must do before it'll let you go any further).

    When you click the link it takes you to your electronic shopping cart which has the new printhead in the cart for $379 plus tax. Obviously not free! But to get past this step you have to order it. If you want any customer service this is NOT the company to use! If you like High Fees, High Lease Price, High Ink Prices and LOW customer service (not being able to talk to a human or even e-chat with a human) this is the company for you!!

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    Reviewed May 30, 2025

    My second prolonged bad experience with Pitney Bowes. First time was when they changed to the new Send Pro Meter. I already had one, but they sent a second one. I had modified my lease, and no one explained that each machine was tied to each lease change. At one point I had 3 machines and 2 return boxes. It took over THREE WEEKS to resolve the issue. Website no help trying to find the correct place to file a case and then wait, and wait for a response. Each department would close my current "case" and refer to another department. Finally had to call my local representative to ask him to help and we got the issue resolved. Now there is no number for the local office, and the US customer service number just tells you to go to the NOT HELPFUL WEBSITE.

    Current issue is that after updating the expiration date on my credit card, my machine won't load any postage, and the charges sent to my credit card company are $00.00 each time. Pitney Bowes says it is the CC company's issue even though my quarterly fees went through on the updated card. THINK TWICE before using.

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    Customer ServicePriceOnline & AppRefunds & PayoutsRates

    Reviewed May 28, 2025

    Have had SendPro for five years. Last rate was a monthly charge of $6.99. No email notification received but they cancelled my subscription and when I logged on next, I was told new subscription at the rate of $17.00 per month - no additional benefits just a rate hike. To top it off, they didn't even transfer what was left in our postage account. It had just disappeared. No phone number to call just an AI bot and then three more people via live chat before they agreed there was a balance and that they would send me a refund. The new software is awful as you have to sign in after every movement on their website. IMHO don't use them.

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    Reviewed May 15, 2025

    This is the worst company ever. ZERO customer service, the machine doesn't work at all, and they're still trying to charge us. Will be filing a complaint with every agency we can as a result of their ineptitude. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

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