Information-protected window send envelope with adhered inside address patch
AssigneeBroadridge Customer Communications, LLC
InventorFrank W. Delfer
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Abstract
Printed transactional documents are enclosed in a document size-inclusive envelope that gives the appearance of being a traditional windowed envelope in which the send address shows through from the address vehicle page inside, but actually has the address printed on an adhered patch that shows through the window, keeping the data inside more protected and allowing production processes to be more efficient, and the patch or envelope has a serialized identifier that ensures the address printed on the patch and seen in the window corresponds with the document on the inside.
Claims20
A postal authority-compliant mailing envelope comprising:
- i) the mailing envelope having a cutout window;
- and
- ii) an opaque address window patch adhered to an inside of the mailing envelope over the cutout window,
- wherein the envelope is in an unsealed condition;
- wherein the window patch lacks an address information;
- and
- wherein the envelope is configured to allow the address information to be printed on the window patch from outside of the envelope.
A mail piece assembly system comprising at least one device configured to perform at least:
- i) adhering, to an inside of a mailing envelope having a cutout window, an internal window adhered opaque address patch over the cutout window inside the mailing envelope;
- wherein the envelope is in an unsealed condition;
- wherein the window patch lacks an address information;
- and
- ii) printing, from outside of the mailing envelope, the internal window adhered opaque address patch with document address information.
A method for creating a postal authority-compliant transactional mail piece comprising:
- i) adhering, to an inside of a mailing envelope having a cutout window, an internal window adhered opaque address patch over the cutout window inside the mailing envelope,
- wherein the envelope is in an unsealed condition,
- wherein the window patch lacks an address information;
- ii) inserting one or more documents into the document envelope;
- iii) printing, from outside of the mailing envelope, the internal window adhered opaque address patch with document address information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.