System and method for identifying potentially life harming mailpieces in an incoming mail stream

A method of sorting mailpieces and identifying potentially life harming mailpieces in an incoming mail stream, the method comprising the steps of:

• singulating and feeding a mailpiece along a feed path of the system;
• reading and measuring the mailpiece as the mailpiece is positioned along the feed path;
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• determining whether the mailpiece is potentially life harming by comparing information read and measured from the mailpiece by the system for reading and measuring the mailpiece to one or more configuration parameters and creating a mailpiece data file;
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• comparing the mailpiece data file to one or more rules stored in an analysis rule database, the result of the comparing the mailpiece data file and the rules stored in the analysis rule data base is one or more indicators assigned to the mailpiece.

A method of sorting mailpieces and identifying potentially life harming mailpieces in an incoming mail stream, the method comprising the steps of:

• singulating and feeding a mailpiece along a feed path of the system;
• reading and measuring the mailpiece as the mailpiece is positioned along the feed path;
• determining whether the mailpiece is potentially life harming by comparing information read and measured from the mailpiece by the system for reading and measuring the mailpiece to one or more configuration parameters and creating a mailpiece data file;
• comparing the mailpiece data file to one or more rules stored in an analysis rule database, the result of the comparing the mailpiece data file and the rules stored in the analysis rule data base is one or more indicators assigned to the mailpiece;
• determining a safe mailpiece confidence level based upon the one or more indicators assigned to the mailpiece;
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• delivering the mailpiece to an appropriate destination bin based upon the safe mailpiece confidence level assigned to the mailpiece.