EP0629454A1 - Verbesserung des Prozesses der elektronischen Post - Google Patents

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EP0629454A1
EP0629454A1 EP93109446A EP93109446A EP0629454A1 EP 0629454 A1 EP0629454 A1 EP 0629454A1 EP 93109446 A EP93109446 A EP 93109446A EP 93109446 A EP93109446 A EP 93109446A EP 0629454 A1 EP0629454 A1 EP 0629454A1
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Walter Rosenbaum
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/18—Devices or arrangements for indicating destination, e.g. by code marks

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  • the present invention relates to the art of electronic distribution of mail by creating a transmittal object that can be enveloped using the Electronic Post process while maintaining the degree of synchronization and having the material properties that allow fluorescent bar coding (bar/no-bar) with only the direct use of black ink (non-fluorescent) high-speed printing.
  • a mail piece can have as many as 5 sort passes and 4 transits before its delivery. If the sortation passes are performed by hand, each pass costs about $14/thousand envelopes. If automated, the cost drops to roughly $2/thousand envelopes.
  • pre-bar coding can make a major impact on mail flow. Such letters can be sent directly to the relatively inexpensive and numerous bar code sort machines instead of requiring OCR processing, which is a more limited and expensive resource.
  • the Electronic Post (see FIGURE 3) paradigm assumes receipt of an address list and text from a large volume mailer (LVM). Instead of the mailer printing out the text, enveloping and addressing the mailing; the LVM sends the machine readable text and address list to Electronic Post. Electronic Post electronically transmits the subject text and corresponding address list to the respective destination sort centers. At each destination, the mail pieces for delivery from that center are printed out, enveloped and addressed. By this means, the major travel time and cost factors in mail processing are eliminated.
  • LVM large volume mailer
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to solve the two above-mentioned problems and provide additional improvements over the Electronic Post.
  • FIGURE 1 shows the SIAMESE Electronic Post mailing creation.
  • FIGURE 2 shows the fluorescent Bar code printing using high speed black-ink printers.
  • FIGURE 3 is a description of the Electronic Post paradigm.
  • the Electronic Post paradigm fundamentally changes the cost and service dynamics that have governed mail processing from the inception of governmental postal authorities about 400 years ago. Until the advent of Electronic Post, all facets of a mail piece's creation, transit, sortation and delivery have been labor intensive.
  • Electronic Post As a tool for Work Flow Management of the sender/postal/addressee triad that is the core of modern mail processing.
  • Electronic Post when viewed from a Work Flow Management perspective, drives new economics and service goals by radically changing the precedence and merging previously discrete steps.
  • the current Electronic Post process stops its Work Flow restructuring when the mail pieces are printed at the destination sort center.
  • the Electronic Post enters the mail stream as non-bar coded "window envelopes".
  • the database that drove the Electronic Post destination printout contained enough information and computer intelligence to generate a bar-code down to even delivery walk sequence ; - none is encoded on the envelope.
  • the destination Electronic Post printers are leading edge Advanced Function Printers (AFP) with sophisticated multi-font and multi-paper feed capability, the end result is a window envelope that conveys the "Look and Feel" of B-class (3rd class) mail.
  • AFP leading edge Advanced Function Printers
  • the insert object not only governs the contents but also the address of the envelope. Implicitly, synchronization is achieved, but at the cost of mandating window enveloping and making reliable pre-bar coding of the envelope technically very difficult if not impossible.
  • the present invention consists in a so-called 'SIAMESE' Electronic Post Process which is a method of achieving aesthetically superior enveloping without sacrificing any of the efficacy of the basic Electronic Post paradigm.
  • SIAMESE Electronic Post can meanwhile produce mail pieces that are indistinguishable from professional correspondence initiated on a personal basis. This means that regular, non-window, high quality paper stock envelopes with aesthetic addressing are produced.
  • removal of the window envelope constraint makes compliance with national standards more natural than the present approach that requires a specially generated "address window cover sheet".
  • SIAMESE Electronic Post allows the marketing to customers of a service that has First Class "Touch and Feel” whether sending at B-Class or First Class rates.
  • Large Volume Mailers then have the added value of presenting to the addressee a mailpiece that has more "attention getting" likelihood of being opened (i.e. the greatest challenge in the LVM industry).
  • Siamese Electronic Post Object Processing drives the Electronic Post mailing via the envelope object. It will be recalled, to avoid the problem of synchronizing each envelope with its respective insert(s), the current Electronic Post is insert-object driven, thereby mandating window envelopes.
  • the Siamese approach is envelope-object driven with synchronization deterministically handled as shown in FIGURE 1.
  • FIGURE 1 Examining FIGURE 1, one sees that the Siamese name results from joining the envelope and content objects into one 'Siamese' object 100 when the Electronic Post mailing is being composed.
  • this Siamese object 100 goes through an AFP printer 200, the address is imprinted on an envelope sub-object 110 of the Siamese object 100 while concurrently the text is printed on a content sub-object 120.
  • the Siamese object 100 enters a splitting stage 300 where the envelope sub-object and the content sub-object 120 are separated.
  • the envelope sub-object 110 is automatically cut, folded, assembled integral to the splitting stage 300 and the content sub-object 120 inserted.
  • the envelope is then sealed as a unit 400 and enters the inbound distribution phase.
  • Encoding a fluorescent bar code using black ink printers is accomplished as shown in FIGURE 2.
  • An envelope sub-object 500 in the Siamese Electronic Post process comes preprinted with a fluorescent strip 510.
  • an AFP printer 520 creates the bar/no-bar encoding by overprinting the florescent strip wherever a "no bar” should be.
  • the effect of the opaqued areas between bars is the same as the traditional "no bar” blank area.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1294784A (en) * 1970-02-04 1972-11-01 Gao Ges Automation Org Method for marking packets and other items
FR2158636A5 (de) * 1971-10-26 1973-06-15 Thomson Csf
GB1331082A (en) * 1970-06-23 1973-09-19 Farrugia W A Automatic sorting of mail
FR2336008A1 (fr) * 1975-12-15 1977-07-15 Rca Corp Boite aux lettres electronique
DE2650054A1 (de) * 1976-10-30 1978-05-11 Wolfgang Braumann Briefe, postkarten mit aufgedruckten, als anschriftentraeger ausgebildeten codierfeldern

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1294784A (en) * 1970-02-04 1972-11-01 Gao Ges Automation Org Method for marking packets and other items
GB1331082A (en) * 1970-06-23 1973-09-19 Farrugia W A Automatic sorting of mail
FR2158636A5 (de) * 1971-10-26 1973-06-15 Thomson Csf
FR2336008A1 (fr) * 1975-12-15 1977-07-15 Rca Corp Boite aux lettres electronique
DE2650054A1 (de) * 1976-10-30 1978-05-11 Wolfgang Braumann Briefe, postkarten mit aufgedruckten, als anschriftentraeger ausgebildeten codierfeldern

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