EP1022691A3 - A method for responding to mail returned to a sender as undeliverable - Google Patents

A method for responding to mail returned to a sender as undeliverable Download PDF

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EP1022691A3
EP1022691A3 EP99126154A EP99126154A EP1022691A3 EP 1022691 A3 EP1022691 A3 EP 1022691A3 EP 99126154 A EP99126154 A EP 99126154A EP 99126154 A EP99126154 A EP 99126154A EP 1022691 A3 EP1022691 A3 EP 1022691A3
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mail piece
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Ronald P. Sansone
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Pitney Bowes Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
    • G07B2017/00443—Verification of mailpieces, e.g. by checking databases

Abstract

A method for responding to a notice by the U.S. Postal Service, or a foreign postal service, that a mail piece is undeliverable. In this method, an amalgamated recipient data center (ARDC) executes a search pattern designed to efficiently determine whether the address used is valid (so that the mail piece was returned erroneously), or whether there is a new address, possibly not reported to the postal service. The search pattern used for a search is based on the endorsement indicated by the postal service explaining why the mail piece was returned. A search pattern for a returned mail piece has search objectives corresponding to the endorsement on the returned mail piece, and aims at achieving the search objectives by executing one or more search processes, each process involving one or more data sources or sources of data. The search processes of a search pattern can be executed in parallel or sequentially, but sequentially executing the search processes is often more efficient. The search is continued to completion unless a success factor reaches a predetermined confidence threshold.
EP99126154A 1998-12-29 1999-12-29 A method for responding to mail returned to a sender as undeliverable Ceased EP1022691A3 (en)

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US22259998A 1998-12-29 1998-12-29
US222599 1998-12-29

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EP1022691A3 true EP1022691A3 (en) 2000-11-15

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US6826548B2 (en) 2001-01-24 2004-11-30 Return Mail, Inc. System and method for processing returned mail
US8598482B2 (en) 2009-03-16 2013-12-03 United States Postal Service Intelligent barcode systems
WO2013013171A2 (en) 2011-07-21 2013-01-24 United States Postal Service Content retrieval systems for distribution items
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US5079714A (en) * 1989-10-03 1992-01-07 Pitney Bowes Inc. Mail deliverability by mail and database processing
US5703783A (en) * 1992-04-06 1997-12-30 Electrocom Automation, L.P. Apparatus for intercepting and forwarding incorrectly addressed postal mail
EP0829811A1 (en) * 1996-09-11 1998-03-18 Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation Method and system for information retrieval
US5842200A (en) * 1995-03-31 1998-11-24 International Business Machines Corporation System and method for parallel mining of association rules in databases

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5079714A (en) * 1989-10-03 1992-01-07 Pitney Bowes Inc. Mail deliverability by mail and database processing
US5703783A (en) * 1992-04-06 1997-12-30 Electrocom Automation, L.P. Apparatus for intercepting and forwarding incorrectly addressed postal mail
US5842200A (en) * 1995-03-31 1998-11-24 International Business Machines Corporation System and method for parallel mining of association rules in databases
EP0829811A1 (en) * 1996-09-11 1998-03-18 Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation Method and system for information retrieval

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