EP2309464A1 - Postversandsystem mit handgeschriebener Unterschrift - Google Patents

Postversandsystem mit handgeschriebener Unterschrift Download PDF

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EP2309464A1
EP2309464A1 EP10179181A EP10179181A EP2309464A1 EP 2309464 A1 EP2309464 A1 EP 2309464A1 EP 10179181 A EP10179181 A EP 10179181A EP 10179181 A EP10179181 A EP 10179181A EP 2309464 A1 EP2309464 A1 EP 2309464A1
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François Arnoux
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Neopost Software and Integrated Solutions
Quadient Technologies France SA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/485—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes
    • B41J2/49—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters or image elements applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes by writing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43M—BUREAU ACCESSORIES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B43M3/00—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes
    • B43M3/04—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic
    • B43M3/045—Devices for inserting documents into envelopes automatic for envelopes with only one flap
    • 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
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00467—Transporting mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00491—Mail/envelope/insert handling system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/0058—Printing of code
    • G07B2017/00588—Barcode
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/00596—Printing of address
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00709—Scanning mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00717—Reading barcodes

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  • the present invention relates exclusively to the field of mail processing and more particularly relates to a mail processing system for the automatic sending of mail items bearing a handwritten address.
  • a mail processing system comprising a computer processing means associated with first printing means for affixing at least a single sending number on an empty envelope, second printing means for providing the printing at least one document and an enveloping machine for inserting said at least one document in said empty envelope, characterized in that it further comprises a set to sign for writing, on each of the envelopes bearing said unique number sending and delivered to said set to be signed, a recipient address using a writing instrument, said recipient address being extracted from a database connected to said computer processing means and being indexed in said database of data with said unique sending number carried by said envelope and in that said lapping machine comprises reading and decoding means for extracting said unique shipment number carried on said empty envelope and ensure a concordance with said document from said database.
  • said computer processing means is a general purpose computer.
  • said first printing means comprise a label printer printing a postal mark on a label to be then stuck on said empty envelope or a laser printer printing a postal mark on said empty envelope or said computer processing means and said first printing means form a franking machine printing a postal stamp on said empty envelope and delivering a stamped envelope to said set to be signed.
  • said second printing means comprise a laser printer for printing said document.
  • said set to be signed comprises at least one signing machine comprising said writing instrument.
  • said set to be signed comprises several signing machines
  • said set to be signed comprises as many reading and decoding means of said unique sending number as machines to sign, said reading and decoding means also ensuring the transmission of said unique number of sending to said database.
  • the Figures 1 to 3 show an architecture of a mail processing system allowing in connection with a banking computer system an implementation of the invention in the context of a banking application of addressing to a particular list of people a particular mail having an appearance personal and confidential and, as a result, must have no sign of mechanized mail.
  • the recipient's address must be a handwritten address.
  • This mail processing system is preferably of the open type, that is to say that the printing of the postal mark is carried out using standard, unsecured printing means, from a general-purpose computer, of type desktop or personal computer for example, which is in connection with the computer banking system which he receives some of its information. It can however also be of closed type with printing of the postal mark from a standard franking machine as illustrated by the Figure 1A .
  • the banking computer system 10 comprises a computer unit 10A and a database 10B comprising all the banking data necessary for the processing of accounts receivable.
  • the content of this database is illustrated in the Figure 1B . It comprises an indexed list 100 in which each index number 102 is associated with a customer account number 104, a client address 106 and data 106 corresponding to the document to be addressed to the customer.
  • This document can be a service offer for a prospect or a customer or a statement of account once the prospect becomes a customer.
  • the bank computer system is connected to a computer processing means, such as general purpose computer 12A, of the mail processing system which manages the postage by means of an authorized software of the postal administration enabling the generation of postal brands.
  • This computer is associated with a database 12B containing data extracted from the bank database and necessary for postage. More particularly and as illustrated again by Figure 1B this database comprises a first indexed list 100A in which each index number 102 is associated with the client address 106 and a unique sending number 110, the generation of which will be further described and a second indexed list 100B in which each index number 102 are associated the data 108 corresponding to the document to be addressed to the client. It should be noted that these two lists do not include the customer account number which is therefore known only to the bank. In practice, these various elements are sent by the computer system 10 to the postage management computer 12A a few days before the end of the month if it is for example to send monthly statements.
  • the management computer 12A is connected to a label printer 16 which generates a number of label lots corresponding to the number of recipients of the list and each having a postal mark.
  • the output of this printer delivering the labels 18 is connected to a first input of a label gluer 20 which receives on its second input empty envelopes of the windowless type 22 and which therefore delivers envelopes that are always empty but stamped 24 at its end. exit.
  • the postal marks may, as illustrated, be of the type "paid for validation" without indication of weight or tariff (A Post product of Swiss Post) with simply a transmitter number, a lot number and unique number of sent coded in a two-dimensional barcode. But, these postal brands may also more typically include a postage amount in relation to the content of these letters and entered at the software level 14 or automatically calculated by it.
  • the postal mark may be limited to the printing of the unique sending number, coded for example in the form of a code "datamatrix", which will be covered and therefore hidden by a standard stamp to the from the printing process for the purpose of further strengthen the manual nature of the consignment.
  • the software used does not have to be approved by the postal administration since the affixed marks, simple numbers, are not then monetary values.
  • the postal markings or the "datamatrix" codes acting on them can be printed directly on the envelopes then introduced into a conventional printer of the laser or equivalent type (referenced 25 on the figure 2 ) connected directly to the computer 12A and used for printing documents.
  • a conventional printer of the laser or equivalent type referenced 25 on the figure 2
  • the use of two different printers is also possible.
  • a sign assembly 26 formed by one or preferably several signing machines 26A, 26B whose charger will receive the empty envelopes stamped or simply numbered 24 and output envelopes 28 empty stamped or simply numbered but whose address will have been written, as by hand, using a writing instrument.
  • signing machines 26A, 26B whose charger will receive the empty envelopes stamped or simply numbered 24 and output envelopes 28 empty stamped or simply numbered but whose address will have been written, as by hand, using a writing instrument.
  • the available time and the number of mails to be sent it is preferable to use several signing machines arranged in parallel, each machine printing a given batch of documents. envelopes even in series one after the other, each machine then writing for example an address line (in this case four or five machines will be sufficient).
  • the time of writing addresses can last several days if the number of machines to sign is not sufficiently sized with the number of mail to be processed.
  • the writing is done by each machine to sign with a pen, a ballpoint pen, a felt pen or any other writing instrument desired by the
  • the set to be signed 26 further comprises one or more reading devices 30A, 30B in number equal to the number of signing machines for reading and decoding the unique sending numbers on the labels or printed on the empty envelopes and transmitting them.
  • reading devices 30A, 30B in number equal to the number of signing machines for reading and decoding the unique sending numbers on the labels or printed on the empty envelopes and transmitting them.
  • the set to be signed receives from the management computer 12A the different addresses in the form of one or more lists depending on whether it uses one or more machines to be signed so as to write the addresses on envelopes labeled in index order. Once all the envelopes passed in the signed set, the first indexed list 100A is filled and ensures a correspondence between the different addresses and the different unique sending numbers.
  • FIG. 1A illustrates an alternative embodiment of the mail processing system according to the invention wherein the general purpose computer 12-14, the printer 16 or 25 and the label glue 20 are replaced by a franking machine 50 for to print the postal mark directly on the empty envelopes 22.
  • the printing of documents is illustrated in figure 2 .
  • the computerized banking system 10 which has been informed thereof sends to the management computer 12A or the franking machine 50 (unless these have received it automatically previously) the second indexed list containing the data to be printed and their index number so that it can print on a printer 25, advantageously laser type or the like, the documents 32 in the same order as the addresses by applying a bar code 34 for the management of the enveloping as well as the identification of the document. If no document is present for a given recipient to whom a previously stamped envelope is to be assigned, then a banal document will be generated so as not to offset the succession of the ordered documents thus created, the enveloping of which is now illustrated with reference to the figure 3 .
  • the batch of franked envelopes 28 is loaded in an enveloping machine 36 and the corresponding batch of documents 32 to be inserted therein.
  • the first envelope is loaded by the machine, the associated unique coded sending number (datamatrix for example), read and decoded by a first reader 36A of the machine, is then sent to the management computer 12A or the franking machine. 50 which will deduce the corresponding index number from the first indexed list 100A.
  • the documents they are taken page by page and their bar codes read and decoded by a second reader 36B (but of course depending on the configuration of the machine the first reader 36A could just as well) before being retransmitted to the management computer 12A or the franking machine 50 for control where a correlation is made between the pending envelope and the current document also pending. If there is a match, an insertion authorization is sent to the machine, otherwise an error is returned to the user interface 40 and the unfilled envelope and the unrecognized document are sent to a reject tray 42 of the machine. wrapping machine where the user can retrieve them.
  • a status of the work performed can be displayed at the user interface with for example a list of envelopes / documents not unfolded available in the reject tray.
  • an envelope / document matching system is made available to the user.
  • the user can use a manual scanning means (hand scanner type "hand shower” 44) to read the bar codes 34 documents and datamatrix-type codes present on the labels 18 of the stamped envelopes 28
  • the concordance information between the envelope and the document is transmitted to the user via the user interface 40 and it can thus associate to a given envelope the correct document.
  • the advantageously laser printer 25 prints both the documents 32 and the empty envelopes 22 on which it affixes the unique shipping number or the postmark 18 incorporating this unique number if the management computer 12A includes the appropriate approved software.
  • the documents 32 are then inserted into the empty envelopes thus printed 24 with the aid of the pleating machine 36, the reading and decoding means (for example the single means 36C) of this machine ensuring the concordance between envelopes and documents from the database 12B of the management computer.
  • Out of this machine are thus available closed envelopes 44 provided with at least the unique shipment number and possibly a postal mark incorporating this unique number but devoid of any mention of recipient and address.
  • this closed envelope without address which can be introduced in the set to sign 26 so that the address of the recipient is written, the reading and the decoding of the unique number of sending by the reading devices 30A, 30B allowing after transmission to the management computer 12A to which it is connected to write the address associated with it in the database 12B and deliver a closed envelope 38 with this recognized address.
  • this closed envelope carries a postal mark 18, the franking process is completed and the stamped envelope can be delivered to its recipient.
  • it is simply a unique sending number, for example a datamatrix code, it should be covered by a stamp to allow its delivery in the postal network or possibly to pass this envelope in a machine to frank.

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