Patent ID: 8468780

Claim:
A method for creating mailpieces from a single web of printed material, wherein the web of printed material includes printed matter to be used as envelopes, and other printed matter to be used as mail content to be included in the envelopes, the mail content of mailpieces having varying numbers of pages, wherein mailpieces with mail content having more than a predetermined number of pages are large mailpieces, and mailpieces with mail content having less than or equal to the predetermined number of pages are small mailpieces, the method comprising: cutting consecutive sections of the web into separated sheets, some of the sheets comprising envelope sheets including envelope printed matter, and some of the sheets comprising mail content sheets including mail content printed matter, the step of cutting further including cutting variable sized sheets depending on whether a sheet is a mail content sheet, or an envelope sheet, the step of cutting variable sized sheets further including cutting larger sized envelope sheets for large mailpieces and smaller envelope sheets for small mailpieces; accumulating mail content sheets belonging to a same mailpiece; enclosing the accumulated mail content sheets in a corresponding envelope sheet, the larger sized envelope sheets forming larger envelopes and the smaller sized envelope sheets forming smaller envelopes.