United States Postal Service

Psi Systems, Inc.

United State Poastal Service

Shea Robert Felix

John F Gullo

Kate A Sobel

Jason Hugo

Rachel E Clausen

Mark J Briganti

John Roland Clem

Dhara Christina Sheila Hara

Julian Thomas

John Gullo

Systems and methods providing an itinerant processing methodology wherein one or more processes, functions, etc. may be performed as an item to be shipped is transported from a shipper to an intermediary processing provider or other shipment processing point. For example, embodiments may comprise an itinerant prepay process in which international fees may be collected prior to the items entering the jurisdiction in which the international fees become due, an itinerant change process to facilitate making changes, such as to change a delivery address, add, change, or remove special service selections, and/or an itinerant business procedure process, such as a fraud detection process, during the time in which an item is transported from a shipper to a shipment processing point. Changes to the shipment, such as to cancel or abort the shipment, change a shipping service, etc., may thus be made after shipment of the item has been initiated.

Systems and methods for international shipping

Systems and methods which invoke multiple shipment legs to provide an international shipment architecture adapted for efficient and reliable international shipping of items and facilitating configuration of aspects of one or more of the multiple shipment legs for particular shipments, shippers, recipients, origination countries, and/or destination countries are described. According to embodiments, an item is transported from a shipper to an international processing provider or other origination country egress processing point in an ingestion leg of an international shipment. The item is provided international processing and international border passage by the international processing provider in a bridge leg of the international shipment. In delivery leg of the international shipment, the item is transported from the international processing provider or other ingress processing point in the destination country to the recipient. Embodiments utilize multiple shipping labels and/or a unified tracking number for an item shipped in a multiple leg international shipment.

Multi-leg international shipping

A method and system for tracking the status of a label. The system can include a memory with a database. The database can include an indicator of the label status. The system can additionally include a processor that operates in accordance with instructions stored in the memory. The processor can receive a request to generate a label, update the first database with an identifier that indicates the existence of the label, receive a signal indicating that a service requested by the label has been provided, and update the identifier in the first database to indicate that the requested service has been provided.

Item status tracking

A system and method for generating a return label for merchandise being returned from a buyer or consumer in a first country to a merchant in a second country. A name and address of a consumer in the first country desiring to return merchandise and merchant or seller information including a merchant identifier is received. An address for receiving returns for the merchant or seller in the second country is accessed based on the merchant information. One or more machine readable identifiers for use by a first country carrier and for use by a second country carrier based at least on the consumer information, and information for routing the return merchandise are generated. A return label for merchandise being returned from the consumer to the merchant is generated. The return label can include the machine readable identifiers and a customs declaration for the merchandise.

System and method for international merchandise return service

Merchandise return label for international returns

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Falls Church, VA, United States of America

Shea Robert Felix