| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically tipping closely incidental mail to magazines or the like. A plurality of magazines are sequentially fed from a source location to a town sort stacking location. A labelling station and an envelope tipping station are disposed intermediate the source and town sort location. Presorted closely incidental mail pieces are provided and scanned for zip code information. Labels are provided having subscriber information including name, address, zip code and mail piece attachment indicia indicating whether that subscriber is to receive a mail piece. Each label is scanned. If a label scanned does not include mail piece attachment indicia indicating that subscriber is to receive a mail piece, that label is fixed to the corresponding, next magazine being fed from the source location to the town sort stack location. If a label scanned does include mail piece attachment indicia indicating that subscriber is to receive a mail piece, the zip code of that label is compared to the zip code of the next to feed closely incidental mail piece. If the zip codes match, the closely incidental mail piece is tipped to the corresponding next magazine being fed from the source location to the town sort stack location and that label is discarded. If a label scanned includes mail piece attachment indicia indicating that subscriber is to receive a mail piece but the zip code of the subscriber information on that label does not match the zip code of the next to feed closely incidental mail piece, an error signal is generated.
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