METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING AND CONTROLLING MAILPIECE PROCESSING USING POSTAL SERVICE MAILPIECE CODE

摘要

Method and systems for tracking and controlling mailpiece (200) processing utilized one or more postal service mailpiece codes (102,104,106,108). The postal service mailpiece codes (202,204) can include a United States Postal Service POSTNET code (204) and a PLANET code (202). Using the same code or codes for mailpiece processing that the postal service uses to track mailpieces in a mail stream simplifies reader (314) design and decreases the number of codes required to be printed on a mailpiece. In addition, the numb er of different types of readers for reading the codes is reduced.