Customer postage bar coding unit

A new and improved machine is disclosed where customers could use their ATM card to pay for postage and place bar codes on their mail. The machine would first be activated by a user once a user had inserted their ATM card and typed in their personal identification number (PIN). Then, the machine would ask a user what mail type they would have, such as first-class or bulk, and then determine the weight of the package. The machine would then ask the user for their zip code. Once the zip code would be keyed, mail would be accepted, postaged, barcoded, and dropped into a bin inside the machine, where it would remain until retrieved by a postal employee.