Patent ID: 6570115
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: B07C,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for sorting mail using a sorting machine, which sorts the mail in accordance with a machine-readable code located on envelopes holding items of mail, which comprises the following stepsproviding each envelope (1) with its own envelope number (2) in the form of a number that can be read by humans and a machine-readable code for identification, providing the envelope or envelopes (1) to be dispatched with the information about an addressee which can be read by humans, looking for the addressee in an e-mail address file of an e-mail system, inputting the number/s (2) of the envelope or envelopes (1) to be dispatched relating to the addressee into the e-mail system by a sender of the envelope, transmitting the addressee, together with the associated envelope numbers (2) from the e-mail system, to the sorting machine which is coupled to the e-mail system and in whose sorting plan the addressee from the e-mail address file is allocated a distribution point, and temporary allocation of the envelope numbers (2) to the distribution point of the addressee, transporting the mail to the sorting machine (4), automatically reading the machine-readable envelope numbers (2) and sorting in accordance with the envelope numbers (2) assigned to the addressee and therefore to the distribution point by means of the e-mail input, deleting the existing allocation of the envelope numbers (2) to the addressee and distribution point, at the latest when these envelopes (1) are reallocated.