Patent ID: 8805748
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: B07C,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of rerouting items during shipment through a series of intermediate destinations to a final destination, which final destination is capable of movement from one geographic location to another, comprising: (a) receiving federal national change of address data at a non-United States Postal Service source; (b) receiving military change of address data at the non-United States Postal Service source more frequently than the federal national change of address data is received at the non-United States Postal Service source, wherein the received military change of address data contains a military addressing scheme different than an addressing scheme of the received federal national change of address data, and compiling, by a processor, the received federal national change of address data and the received military change of address data into a computer searchable military change of address database; (c) scanning the items by a scanning device while at an intermediate destination to determine a final destination of each item; (d) while the items are at the intermediate destination, performing a computerized check by a processor using the results of the scanning step and the compiling step to determine whether a geographic location of the final destination for each item has changed, wherein performing the computerized check further comprises accessing one or more database sets containing information for a military unit, unique delivery point information for the military unit, and a geographical location for the military unit; and (e) if the geographic location of the final destination of an item has changed, making a decision whether or not to reroute the item so that the item is shipped from the intermediate destination to the changed geographic location of the final destination without first being shipped to a prior location of the final destination.