GB2483220A - Dynamic system for routing mail - Google Patents

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GB2483220A
GB2483220A GB201014004A GB201014004A GB2483220A GB 2483220 A GB2483220 A GB 2483220A GB 201014004 A GB201014004 A GB 201014004A GB 201014004 A GB201014004 A GB 201014004A GB 2483220 A GB2483220 A GB 2483220A
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The application provides an alternative to traditional postal systems. The postal ID system includes a routing database of postal delivery IDâ s that provides a one-to-one mapping between the ID and a single delivery address. The system provides dynamic management of the delivery address by allowing users to change the address associated with the ID, for example if they move house. The system also provides administrative services that allows dynamic routing of postal mail in order to facilitate easy management of and changes to physical delivery addresses, management of multiple addresses, dynamic re-routing, certification of and auditing of delivery addresses by authorities such as governments and commercialisation of delivery IDs by postal delivery services and other companies in a similar fashion to personalised vehicle number plates.

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A dynamic system for routing physical postal mail tc support existing postal addresses and address changes.
Field of Invention
This invention relates generally to the postal system, and more specifically to the means by which the address that physical mail is sent to is routed through postal services and identified as being intended for a recipient at a specific physical location.
Background of the Invention
Whilst moving house during 2003 I found it particularly frustrating to have to update so many different companies and individuals as to my change of address. Utilities, bank, driving license and many others all needed to be updated and this was both a hassle, and it was fraught with significant errors and mis-timing as, for example, my last utility bill arrived at my old home after I had vacated and my local council failed to process the updated.
Additionally, there are circumstances where your postal address needs to change rapidly and perhaps frequently. Being able to dynamically reroute your postal mail, even after it has been sent is very attractive.
Additionally, for many individuals, families and businesses it would be advantageous to have multiple delivery addresses which can be used and routed for different purposes, such as deliveries to work, deliveries whilst on holiday or privacy reason.
What was required was a means of being able to, as rapidly as possible, update all the addresses in one go. Some websites, like iammoving.oom, have attempted to do this by letting you maintain an aooount with them that oonneots to all your service companies and on updating your account details they will forward the changes on to the relevant companies. However, this is flawed as the changes rarely get processed and it is not comprehensive.
Whilst P.O.IBoxes provide a partial solution, they are usually tied to a particular pickup location and do not allow dynamic re-routing.
The solution presented allows individuals to manage the delivery location associated with their address dynamically, and provides postal system the means to use existing delivery technology along with new technologies to incorporate the system.
Description of Invention
1. A Routing Database of delivery IDs is maintained by an authority service, institution or government.
2. A delivery ID would be a unigue reference number generated by the Routing Database 3. The delivery ID format can be controlled and validated by authorities such as governments 4. The delivery ID format can be personalized and customized, such as with many vehicle number plates 5. The Routing Database allows IDs to be generated by any or all of various services, individuals, governments, instructions, software applications and businesses.
6. Each ID can have associated with it one physical delivery addresses at any given time.
7. The physical address associated with an ID can be altered at any time using a secure distributed management system and web-based or post-office based administration could also be supported.
8. The ownership of an ID, and access to its administration can be tiered, allowing for freely public addressing, such as we have with email addresses, or validated and permanent IDs that may be assigned by authorities such as governments and require advanced security for administration by integrating with the other online government services (for example www.gateway.gov.uk in the uk which provides centralized registration and authorization for government services online) 9. Official physical addresses can be validated by government or other authority 10. Users of the system can setup various privacy settings on a particular ID allowing or denying access to and from certain classes cf party, such as bank, utilities or friends.
11. Official and validated ID to physical location pairs can be certificated by government or other authority (allowing for a validated "home" address for instance in case of driving licenses, passports, voting and the like) 12. When sending mail using the system, only the postal ID is required to be imprinted on the item 13. When arriving at the sorting office, the postal service's systems use a secure and automated lookup service to resolve the ID into the current physical delivery addresses associated with it in the Routing Database.
14. Access to the Routing Database can be managed and secured depending on a country's particular laws and/or the privacy settings on of the ID. Public postal services can have simple access to the ID and associated Physical Addresses, security services may have access to more information associated with the ID.
15. Once an item has been sent, the Delivery Address associated with the ID may be altered at any before the ID is resolved to a physical address.
16. Each ID to Physical Address that is resolved by a postal service is logged by the system.
17. To support existing delivery systems, upon resolving the ID to a physical address, the postal service can print the physical address onto the item and a traditional delivery process can continue from there.
18. More modern delivery systems can avoid printing traditional addresses onto items and use rfid, or barcode-based delivery systems to complete delivery 19. Users of the system can track the progress of their deliveries using their ID, for example viewing how many items for delivery to them are currently in the system.
20. Users of the system can audit volumes and locations of deliveries associated with an ID and/or any physical location.
21. Bulk mail can be blocked by restricting access to the ID system and limiting the number of ID to Physical Address resolutions allowed by any particular sender.
22. Users of the system can manage re-routing information such as alternative delivery IDs for failed delivers and/or include other re-routing instructions such as to hold mail, or return to sender, or obey an altered mapping between ID and physical location.
23. Delivery services using the system can use the audit data to create charging mechanisms and tiered postal services tied into specific formats of postal ID.
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