Patent ID: 8608068
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: B07C,G07B

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking position of a mail piece within a facility, comprising: scanning a series of mail pieces to obtain identifying indicia therefrom; sorting the series of mail pieces according to a destination-based postal sorting strategy; placing the sorted mail pieces into a container, the container having a separate marker comprising an RFID tag and a barcode which is correlated to the RFID tag, the marker not attached to or containing the mail pieces; in a computerized control system, associating identifiers for the marker with a sequence of mail pieces in the container; scanning the RFID tag of the marker to associate a position of the container at the time of scanning with the mail in the container; transporting the container; and video tracking the container from the position at the time of scanning to a later different position, including maintaining a map of each position of the container within the facility.