Integrated shipping label and customs form
AssigneePSI Systems, Inc.
InventorHarry T. Whitehouse
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Abstract
The systems and methods described herein relate generally to the integration of a shipping label with a customs form to provide a single label having postage, addressing, customs and other information for international shipping. In one embodiment, a method for generating an international shipping a package comprises the steps of providing shipping information associated with the package, the information comprising address information of the origin, address information of the destination, postage information including a postage amount due to a post service and a customs form number unique within the post service; processing a shipping label having the shipping information displayed thereon; and affixing the shipping label to the package.
Claims22
A method for generating an integrated international shipping label and customs form, comprising:
- receiving, at a computer, shipping information associated with an international mail piece, wherein the shipping information includes one or more of an origin address and a destination address associated with the international mail piece;
- receiving, at the computer, customs information that includes a description associated with one or more items to be shipped in the international mail piece;
- and
- generating, by the computer, a postage payment indicium corresponding to the international mail piece, a customs form tracking number, and an international shipping label that integrates (1) the shipping information, (2) a plain text customs declaration form, (3) the postage payment indicium corresponding to the international mail piece, and (4) the customs form tracking number,
- wherein the plain text customs declaration form includes one or more fields populated with the description associated with the one or more items to be shipped in the international mail piece,
- wherein the customs form tracking number is logically linked to the postage payment indicium.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to generate an integrated international shipping label and customs form comprising:
- a postage payment indicium corresponding to the international mail piece;
- an origin address associated with the international mail piece;
- a destination address associated with the international mail piece;
- and
- a plain text customs declaration form having one or more fields that a computer system automatically populates with a description associated with one or more items to be shipped in the international mail piece;
- and
- a customs form tracking number,
- wherein the customs form tracking number is logically linked to the postage payment indicium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.