Abstract: A postage cost recording system including a postage computer, a postage meter apparatus for printing postage legends, a meter driver responsive to the postage computer for adjusting the postage amount handles of the postage meter, and a sensor for detecting the passage of items through the postage meter apparatus and for providing a signal to the postage computer. The postage computer stores item records for each metering cycle and for each item sensed by the sensor and controls a printer to provide summaries of the stored item records. Also disclosed are various alternative versions of the postage recording system and letter feed sensors.