Printed matter – Method
Patent
1998-03-02
2000-07-18
Fridie, Jr., Willmon
Printed matter
Method
283 70, 209584, 209900, B42D 1500
Patent
active
060896124
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a national stage of PCT/GR96/00015 filed Jun. 21, 1996 and based, in turn, upon Greek national application 950100254 of Jul. 4, 1995 under the International Convention.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method of distribution of correspondence and related things, in the interior of a country and abroad, by using Post Numbers (P.N.). The method facilitates the postal services of each country as they fill in themselves the address of the receiver-subscriber and so, can proceed to the prompt delivery of the correspondence and the relative things, even in case the receivers have changed their addresses.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Up to now, when the receiver of letters and parcels (natural or legal person) changes his address in the same country, he notifies the postal services of this change. Afterwards, these services deliver the letters and the parcels to the new address of the receiver by filling in themselves the new address on them. This service is offered in Germany for a period up to 6 months, in Austria for a period of 3 months as well as in Italy for a period of 1 month starting from the date of informing of the post services.
After the expiration of this period, only some of the letters and parcels are returned to the senders. Most of them are lost and cause incalculable economic damage to the intended recipients and is a blow to their social contacts.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The Post Number is a number that corresponds in the electronic data base of the post service of a country, to a file that contains the designation elements (full name or trade name etc) and the address of the receiver-subscriber.
The Post Number is completed with codes (letters or numbers) that indicate the country and furthermore some region of the country they are destined for and in which the P.N. in question is in effect.
By applying the method of the Post Numbers that is made, according to the invention, with the support of computers, the letters, parcels and relative things circulate in the interior of a country as long as the sender has recorded on them the full name and the P.N. of the receiver, or just the P.N. that has been assigned to him by the post service of the country of his residence or employment after the potential recipient has paid his subscription. Abroad, they circulate on the basis of the Post Number completed with such codes.
If the receiver gives the P.N. of the company he works for or the P.N. of a member of his family or a third person to the senders to use it, then, it is necessary that the sender records on the letter the full name of the final receiver, in the sense of "ATTENTION OF: . . . ", so as to facilitate the selection and distribution in the company or in the family.
The receiver in question is certainly the final receiver but the post services consider as receiver the subscriber, whose address is recorded on the letters and the relative things, whereas, altogether, the handling of the letters, by the Post Services, is made on behalf of the designated recipient. The receiver-subscriber, possessor of the P.N., is responsible for the internal distribution of the letters and the related things, but, concerning this, the final receiver will have to consent from the moment that he uses the P.N. of the receiver-subscriber.
According to the present invention, one of the advantages of this method is that when the receiver-subscriber changes his address, he can notify directly the post service of this change and the post service will proceed to inform the electronic data base of the new data. In this way, although the receiver-subscriber hasn't yet notified the senders of this change and has no reason for doing this the letters will follow him to his new address as it is recorded on them not by the sender but by the post service that is kept informed of each change.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
One way (model) of realization of the method of the P.N. is described below, with reference to the attac
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patent: 5476420 (1995-12-01), Manning
patent: 5746450 (1998-05-01), Petkovsek
patent: 5848810 (1998-12-01), Beaudoin et al.
Dubno Herbert
Fridie Jr. Willmon
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