Patent ID: 7012710

Claim:
A method for providing a mailing system, including the steps of, in a computer system: receiving a mail item from a sender; causing printing of the mail item in a document, the document including thereon or therein information at least partially indicative of an action associated with the mail item, and coded data at least partially indicative of the at least one action, the coded data being coincident with the information, the coded data comprising a plurality of substantially undifferentiated marks positioned relative to a set of predetermined nominal mark positions; receiving indicating data from a sensing device, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the information sensing at least some of the corresponding coincident coded data, and generating the indicating data using at least some of the sensed coded data, the indicating data being at least partially indicative of the at least one action; determining, using the indicating data, the at least one action; and generating, using the determined at least one action, a second mail item.