Abstract: An automated hybrid mail system/method which sends a graphic image file from the sender's terminal into a postal network via a remote printing facility . The system checks the recipient's address is correctly located on the graphic image file before sending and optionally verifying the recipient's address and adding a correct Delivery Point ID and bar code. Client-side operations require no filling in of pre-defined fields or templates; any computer application that produces a printable application document can be used. Preferably, a single-click or simple operation by the sender can send the application document to be printed as a hardcopy document and mailed to a recipient The server-side operations are automated. The system tracks the graphic image file using a unique identification number allocated when the graphic image file is created on the sender's terminal.