This excerpt taken from the PBI DEF 14A filed Mar 24, 2005.
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PROXY SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF PITNEY BOWES BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIRECTION TO T. ROWE PRICE TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE Annual Meeting of Stockholders May 9, 2005
Michael J. Critelli, Bruce P. Nolop, Amy C. Corn, or any of them, with power of substitution, are hereby appointed proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock and $2.12 convertible preference stock of Pitney Bowes Inc. owned by the undersigned at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 9, 2005, including any continuation of the meeting caused by any adjournment, or any postponement of the meeting, upon such business as may properly come before the meeting, including the items as specified on the reverse side.
The undersigned, if a participant in the Pitney Bowes Inc. Deferred Investment Plan (the “Plan”), directs T. Rowe Price Trust Company,Trustee, to vote all Pitney Bowes common stock allocated to his or her account, as indicated on the reverse side, at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 9, 2005, including any continuation of the meeting caused by any adjournment, or any postponement of the meeting, upon such business as may properly come before the meeting, including items as specified on the reverse side.
All shares of $2.12 convertible preference stock and common stock registered in your name, held for your benefit in the dividend reinvestment plan and/or held for your benefit in the Deferred Investment Plan are shown on this card. The shares represented hereby will be voted in accordance with the directions given by the stockholder. If a properly signed proxy is returned without choices marked, and if not
otherwise directed, the shares represented by this proxy registered in your name and/or held for your benefit in the dividend reinvestment plan will be voted FOR Items 1 and 2. If a properly signed direction card regarding Deferred Investment Plan shares is returned without choices marked, and if not otherwise directed, the shares represented by the voting direction card will be voted, with respect to Items 1 and 2, in the same proportion indicated by the voting instructions given by participants in the Plan.
In their discretion, the Proxies and/or the Trustee, as the case may be, are authorized to vote upon such other business as may properly come before the meeting, including any continuation of the meeting caused by any adjournment, or any postponement of the meeting.
Please mark, date and sign, and return
promptly this proxy in the enclosed envelope, which requires no postage
if mailed in the U.S., or grant your proxy via telephone or Internet
as described above.
