Patent ID: 7059521

Claim:
A method of processing documents to be mailed, the method comprising: providing a plurality of documents for a plurality of customers, each of the documents having a customer identification thereon; feeding the documents sequentially over a plurality of rollers in a first direction into a collection bin to form a stack, the collection bin comprising a deionizer bar that is adapted to reduce static electricity in the stack to facilitate the subsequent retrieval of a bottom one of the documents from the stack, wherein the documents sequentially pass over the deionizer bar after passing over the rollers and fall vertically down into the collection bin, with the deionizer bar deionizing the documents that fall into the collection bin to prevent two or more documents from sticking together; retrieving the bottom one of the documents from the stack with a retrieval mechanism in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction; reading the customer identification on the retrieved document; and matching an insert to the retrieved document.