Patent ID: 8245933

Claim:
A method of printing a new postal authority code on a mail piece prepared by and received from an inserter, the method comprising steps of: receiving, at a barcode post-processing system that receives a mail piece from the inserter, legacy address block information from the mail piece captured by an imaging system in communication with the barcode post-processing system; processing, by the barcode post-processing system, the captured legacy address block information to determine one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code; supplementing the captured legacy address block information with the one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code, the one or more missing parameters being received from one or more data sources in communication with barcode post-processing system; and printing, by a printer in communication with the barcode post-processing system, the new postal authority code on a designated section of the mail piece, the designated section being defined by a standard regarding the new postal authority code, wherein wherein the legacy address block information comprises at least one of the group consisting of: a PLANET code, a POSTNET code, key line data, mailer identification information, and an inserter code.