Patent ID: 6954729

Claim:
A computerized method for learning a delivery point address and updating a database of such delivery point addresses by using unmatched or unused data from at least one mail piece, wherein the method comprises: a. capturing a text string from an image of a first mail piece; b. comparing the text string to a first set of preexisting data in the database to determine a match for the data on the mail piece according to a first set of predetermined rules; c. separating the matched or used data from the unmatched data or unused data for the mail piece determined by step (b); d. automatically correlating the unmatched or unused data from the mail piece to a second set of preexisting data according to a set of predetermined rules to define a set of correlated data; and e. updating the database with the unmatched or unused data so that a point of delivery for a second mail piece with the same intended delivery point as the first mail, piece and having similar unmatched or unused data as the first mail piece can be automatically determined.