Mail piece interactive lifecycle tracking system and method

摘要

A method for providing intended recipients with the status of documents created by a large scale document production and management processes. The production and management process may be comprised of a plurality of different stages including: utilizing a print stream to generate the documents, printing documents on a printer in accordance with the print stream, and forming completed mail pieces on an inserter from the printed documents in accordance with mail piece creation data files. A monitoring system receives information regarding the status of individual documents within these production and management process stages. The system answers a status request from the document recipient. The recipient provided an identification number corresponding to one or more mail pieces. Document status information for the individual document is provided to the document recipient