Method for uniquely identifying mailpieces having non-personalized enclosures

A mailpieces production system operable to associate an enclosure with a mailpiece during an inserting and printing process, the mailpieces production system comprising:

• an insert printer;
• an insert feeder;
• a document feeder
• an envelope feeder;
• an envelope printer,
• a computer comprising one or more processors, one or more non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively couple to the one or more processors, the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media which store at least one of computer-executable instructions or data which, when executed by the one or more processors cause the at least one or more processors to:
• access a Job file containing at least a mailing list of addresses to be printed on mailpieces,
• allocate a distinct mailpiece identifier for a mailpiece,
• allocate a temporary machine identifier to the enclosure extracted from the insert feeder of the mailpiece production system, wherein the temporary machine identifier is only temporary and serves as long as the mailpiece is in process by the production system,
• associate an insert identifier with said machine identifier allocated to the enclosure,
• associate said temporary machine identifier with said distinct mailpiece identifier;
• record the mailpiece identifier as being in process,
• cause a creation of the mailpiece by insertion of at least the enclosure into an envelope,
• cause an address associated with the mailpiece identifier to be printed on the envelope,
• record the mailpiece identifier as being inserted, and
• wherein, in response to an occurrence of a malfunction before printing, cause the temporary machine identifier to lapse and cause the address associated with the mailpiece identifier to be printed on a next envelope and associated with a next temporary machine identifier that is different than the lapsed temporary machine identifier.