Metering incoming deliverable mail to identify delivery delays

Details Metering incoming deliverable mail to identify delivery delays Metering incoming deliverable mail to identify delivery delays

1997-09-05

1999-12-21

Voeltz, Emanuel Todd

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

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Postage meter system

705400, 705401, 705416, G06F 1700

Patent

active

060062118

ABSTRACT:
A system that allows a third party, such as a postage meter manufacturer or PSD manufacturer, to collate data, process the data and report localized delivery delays on a nationalized basis. The foregoing is accomplished by connecting a scanner and control software to a digital postage meter or PSD processor that would read incoming digitally metered mail. Instead of printing an indicia, the scanner would read the already existing indicia and other information on the mail piece and then extract the sender data fields that are contained in the indicia or on the mail piece. The extracted mail data would be periodically uploaded to a data center. The data center would compare the extracted data with mail sender data that has previously been uploaded from sending meters and processors to determine unexpected delivery delays in the delivery network.

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patent: 5790790 (1998-08-01), Smith et al.
patent: 5796834 (1998-08-01), Whitney et al.

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