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Method of outsorting return to sender mail using an incoming mail sorting apparatus

  • US 6,740,835 B2
  • Filed: 11/28/2001
  • Issued: 05/25/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of sorting mailpieces using a mailpiece sorting apparatus, the mailpiece sorting apparatus comprising a control system, memory devices and an addressee database, the method comprising the steps of:

  • a. obtaining addressee information and address information for an addressee from a mailpiece using the mailpiece sorting apparatus;

    b. comparing information obtained from the mailpiece to addressee and address information from the addressee database in an attempt to determine the addressee of the mailpiece;

    c. determining whether address information was determined with a level of confidence indicative of correct information if the addressee can not be determined in step b;

    d. comparing the address information with information from the addressee database if the address information was determined with a level of confidence indicative of correct information;

    e. delivering the mailpiece to a return to sender bin if address information compared to information from the addressee database does not match information in the addressee database;

    f. storing information about the number of mailpieces sent to the return to sender bin;

    g. determining a sender for each of the mailpieces sent to the return to sender bin; and

    h. compiling statistical information regarding the number of mailpieces attributable to each of the senders determined in step g.

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