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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2000
Klaus Gettwart, Velten, DE;
Henning Hentschel, Garbsen, DE;
Hartmut Neumann, Erzhausen, DE;
Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co., Birkenwerder, DE;
Abstract
In a system and a method for postal matter processing, with automatic reception of postal matter in receiving stations and with a staggered postal matter processing, acquisition of shipping data and providing the postal matter with a machine-readable marking and storage of the mail take place in the receiving stations. The marked postal matter is transported to a remote distributing station having at least one franking means at which transfer of the shipping data allocated to the marking into a memory of the franking means ensues. The postal matter is franked in the distributing station according to the data that are stored in the memory allocated to the marking.