Mailpieces manufacturing, distribution and communication system and method
AssigneeNeopost Technologies
InventorPeter Ashworth
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Abstract
Mailpiece manufacturing, distribution and communication system comprising at least one production center, a production software/server for generating and sending production orders to at least one processing equipment over a network for printing documents and assembling the printed documents in a mailpiece, a distribution center for delivering the mailpiece to a customer and a domain server for interactive customer communication, the mailpiece comprising a single barcode containing a web page link for accessing the domain server and comprising processing equipment control codes or a mailpiece identifier for controlling the at least one processing equipment and for interactive customer communication.
Claims16
A manufacturing, distribution and communication method of mailpieces, the method comprising:
- generating production orders;
- sending said production orders to at least one processing equipment over a network;
- printing documents;
- assembling the printed documents in a mailpiece;
- dispatching the mailpiece;
- delivering the mailpiece to a customer;
- and
- reading the mailpiece for interactive customer communication,
- wherein for controlling the at least one processing equipment and for interactive customer communication the mailpiece comprises a single barcode containing a web page link for accessing a domain server, and comprising processing equipment control codes or a mailpiece identifier required for controlling the at least one processing equipment.
A mailpieces manufacturing, distribution and communication system, comprising at least one production centre, a production software/server for generating and sending production orders over a network to at least one processing equipment for printing documents and assembling the printed documents in a mailpiece, a distribution centre for delivering the mailpiece to a customer and a domain server for interactive customer communication, wherein for controlling the at least one processing equipment and for interactive customer communication the mailpiece comprises a single barcode containing a web page link for accessing the domain server, and comprising processing equipment control codes or a mailpiece identifier.
A single machine-readable symbol containing a web page link giving access to a domain server for interactive customer communication and comprising processing equipment control codes or a mailpiece identifier required to control at least one processing equipment of a mailpieces manufacturing, distribution and communication system.
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