Method for enhancing mail piece processing system
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsChristopher Baker, Douglas Quine
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Abstract
A method for processing mail pieces having information thereon includes scanning the mail piece information and storing scanned mail piece information. Stored information is accessed when a scanned mail piece information is incomplete to obtain previously stored complete mail piece information. The previously stored complete mail piece information is employed in processing the mail piece with the incomplete information. The information may be a code or text that is scanned and stored during the processing of the mail. Fragmentary information from various sources on the scanned mail piece may be combined to access a previously stored mail piece record. The accessed information may be displayed.
Claims21
A method for processing mail pieces having information thereon comprising the steps of:
- scanning said mail piece information;
- storing scanned mail piece information;
- accessing stored information when a scanned mail piece information is incomplete to obtain a previously stored complete mail piece information;
- and,
- employing said previously stored complete mail piece information in processing the mail piece with the incomplete information.
A method for sorting mail pieces containing a code thereon comprising the steps of:
- feeding mail pieces to a scanner system;
- scanning said mail piece codes;
- storing complete mail pieces scanned codes in a MRDF;
- accessing a complete mail pieces scanned code during a sortation run for a mail piece where scanned code is incomplete;
- transmitting said complete accessed code to a sort computer;
- and,
- said sort computer processing said transmitted code to determine a destination sortation bin for said mail piece with the incomplete scanned code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.