Patent ID: 6219994
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: B07C,Y10S

Abstract:
A mail wrapping system apparatus for preparing for mailing via a specified delivery agency postal items from a plurality of companies, having destination addresses of recipients indicated thereon, to respective ones of said destination addresses in accordance with a coincidence of said destination addresses, the mail wrapping system apparatus comprising:receiving trays for respectively receiving said postal items from each of said companies, said postal items from each of said companies being previously sorted into respective divisions of specified delivery areas covered by said specified delivery agency;extraction means for extracting from said postal items in the receiving trays a multiplicity of same address groups of said postal items, each of said same address groups consisting of ones of said postal items having coinciding ones of said destination addresses;wrapping means for respectively individually assembling each of said same address groups into a bundle and successively wrapping each of said same address groups assembled using a wrapping component with a corresponding one of said destination addresses respectively displayed on each of said wrapped same address groups to provide for mailing said wrapped same address groups; andweight sorting means for sorting said wrapped same address groups into weight divisions set forth by a fee schedule of said specified delivery agency.