Franking system with a verified distribution point
AssigneeNeopost Technologies
InventorFabien Chatté
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Abstract
A method of franking a mailpiece that is to be put into a letter box associated with a mail-receiving office, including, in a portable communications device of a sender of the mailpiece, firstly an operation of inputting an identifier of said letter box, and secondly an operation of transmitting the identifier together with other postal data, including at least one franking amount and an unique identification code relating to the mailpiece, to a server of a franking service having the function of issuing a franking authorization for the sender.
Claims11
A method of franking a mailpiece that is to be put into a letter box associated with a mail-receiving office, comprising the following steps:
- inputting into a portable communications device of a sender of the mailpiece, an identifier of said letter box, and
- transmitting by the portable communications device the identifier together with other postal data, further including at least one franking amount and an unique identification code relating to the mailpiece, to a server of a franking service having a function of issuing a franking authorization for the sender.
A portable communications device that implements the franking of a mailpiece deposited in a letter box associated with a mail-receiving office, the device comprising:
- an input mechanism into which an identifier of said letter box is input, and
- a transmitting mechanism that transmits the identifier together with other postal data including at least one franking amount and a unique identification code relating to the mailpiece, to a server of a franking service that issues a franking authorization.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a program causing a computer to execute a franking method for a mailpiece deposited into a letter box associated with a mail-receiving office, comprising:
- inputting into a portable communications device of a sender of the mailpiece, an identifier of said letter box, and
- transmitting by the portable communications device the identifier together with other postal data, further including at least one franking amount and an unique identification code relating to the mailpiece, to a server of a franking service having a function of issuing a franking authorization for the sender.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.