Devices and corresponding methods to reduce sorting of mailings to produce grouped mailings
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United States of America Patent
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Aug 8, 2023
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Sep 24, 2020
app pub date -
Jun 8, 2020
filing date -
Jun 13, 2018
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Abstract
A mail item sortation system and method that includes an external controller for culling candidate letters in a mailing job to produce groupings of letters based on industry average weights and/or thicknesses in order to place all the candidate letters going to a single address adjacent to each other, an internal controller, interfaced with the external controller, that utilizes the groupings of letters to manage multiple letter sorters, wherein a specific letter sorter is selected to pair a calculated number of pockets to accommodate the groupings with an actual number of pockets in the selected letter sorter, and a transfer process for moving letters within the letter sorter pockets to a StatementPack machine.
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- 2020 Application Filing Year
- B07C Class
- 241 Applications Filed
- 180 Patents Issued To-Date
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- B07C Class
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