| 摘要 |
The present invention is an apparatus and method for marking the mail stop of an article of internal or interdepartmental mail. The apparatus consists of a matrix of boxes representing alphanumeric characters, a portion of which that are marked or are scratched or blackened out by the sender to represent a destination mail stop code. The matrix further comprises a lead-in marker and a lead-out marker used by an optical scanner of a mail sorting machine to determine the location and orientation of the matrix affixed or printed on the article of mail and to, thereby, decode the mail stop code marked on the matrix. The method of the present invention consists of scanning an article having such a label printed on it whereby the destination mail code is marked on the label. The method then determines if the marked mail stop code matches a destination known to the mail sorting machine and, if so, routes the article to a mail receptacle corresponding to the mail stop code.
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