Metering incoming mail to detect fraudulent indicia
First Claim
1. An incoming mail monitoring system, said system comprises:
- a plurality of mailers units that stores unique information contained in a postal indicia of a mail piece;
a plurality of recipient addressee units that reads and stores the unique information contained in the postal indicia after the mail piece has been delivered to the recipient; and
a data center that receives and correlates information stored by the mailers units and the recipients units to determine the possibility of the commission of fraud in the production of the postal indicia.
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Abstract
A system that tracks when normal digital postage meter mail or digital processor mail is received by an addressee. The foregoing is accomplished by connecting a scanner and control software to a digital postage meter or digital 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 if fraud has been committed in the production of the postal indicia.
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1. An incoming mail monitoring system, said system comprises:
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a plurality of mailers units that stores unique information contained in a postal indicia of a mail piece; a plurality of recipient addressee units that reads and stores the unique information contained in the postal indicia after the mail piece has been delivered to the recipient; and a data center that receives and correlates information stored by the mailers units and the recipients units to determine the possibility of the commission of fraud in the production of the postal indicia. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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