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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Thomas J. Foth, Trumbull, CT (US);
Cornelius S. Mcnab, New Haven, CT (US);
Thomas J. Foth, Trumbull, CT (US);
Cornelius S. McNab, New Haven, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for secondary resale of returned merchandise wherein the returned merchandise is preferably indirectly shipped from an original consumer to a secondary consumer after the returned merchandise is rerouted to a secondary consumer via a shipping carrier. An original consumer, upon instructions from a returns facilitator, first ships the merchandise to be returned to a first address, afterwhich the returns facilitator finds a secondary buyer and causes the merchandise to be returned to be rerouted by a shipping carrier so as to be delivered to the secondary consumer.