System for accepting non harming mail at a receptacle
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 affixed to mail;
a plurality of receptacles that reads and stores the unique information contained in the postal indicia before the mail enters the interior of the receptacle; and
a data center that receives information stored by the mailers'"'"' units and the receptacles to identify the mailer and assess the possibility of the presence of life-harming material in the mail.
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Abstract
A system that determines if mail contains life-harming materials before the mail enters the interior of a receptacle, i.e., mail box. This invention accomplishes the foregoing by scanning mail in a control chamber of a receptacle that is addressed to a recipient which contains material that may or may not be life-harming; capturing an image of the face of the mail, which includes the name and physical address of the recipient and the postal indicia; processing the image on the face of the mail to identify the mailer and the mail to access the possibility of the presence of life-harming material in the mail. If certain information in the image on the face of the mail is known, the mail will be allowed to enter an inner chamber of the receptacle.
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26 Claims
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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 affixed to mail; a plurality of receptacles that reads and stores the unique information contained in the postal indicia before the mail enters the interior of the receptacle; and a data center that receives information stored by the mailers'"'"' units and the receptacles to identify the mailer and assess the possibility of the presence of life-harming material in the mail. - 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)
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