Patent ID: 7259345
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: B07C,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for sorting and bundling mail pieces for delivery comprising: a) sorting a batch of mail pieces each having a destination code thereon which corresponds to one of n predetermined delivery destinations with an automated sorting machine which scans and stores each destination code in a computer memory in at least one pass of the mail pieces through the sorting machine, the automated sorting machine ordering the mail pieces according to a first selected destination criteria to partially sort the batch of mail pieces by destination code; b) then further sorting the batch of partially sorted mail pieces to a plurality of b bundling machines by destination code, the automated sorting machine sorting the mail pieces to m bins in a plurality of p sorting passes, and wherein the number of bundling machines used to bundle the mail pieces is greater than or equal to n divided by the quantity m raised to the power p, whereupon mail pieces having the same destination code are directed to one of the bundling machines, c) then bundling mail pieces having the same destination code together in one of the bundling machines.