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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2010
Hendrik Cornelis Fijnvandraat, Enschede, NL;
Hendrik Cornelis Fijnvandraat, Enschede, NL;
Neopost Industrie, Bagneux, FR;
Abstract
For preparing mail pieces including reply items to be returned by addressees of the mail pieces, address carriers () are fed one by one from a first feeding station (). An address () is scanned from each fed address carrier (). Address data sets each representing a scanned address () are stored. A unique identification code () is scanned from each fed reply item () and stored as a reply code data set representing the scanned identification codes (). Mail pieces of which at least a plurality each comprises at least one of the fed address carriers () and at least one of the fed reply items () are prepared. For each assembled mail piece comprising at least one of the address carriers () and at least one of the reply items (), an association between the reply code data set and the address data set of that mail piece is stored.