Patent ID: 8490961

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a master mail list having a sequence of mail recipients; assembling printed products to form a first mail stream, wherein assembling is conducted by placing a single folded sheet each by folded sheet feeders on an assembly chain, by gathering the individual folded sheets on top of another and transporting them to a stitcher station, by stitching said gathered folded sheets to form a printed product, by transferring said printed product to a trimmer for forming a trimmed product, by passing said trimmed product to a printer and printing address indicia on the product for forming the first mail stream; feeding the printed products from the first mail stream into moving vertical pockets of an insert machine; providing a second mail stream of printed products to the insert machine; and feeding the printed products from the second mail stream into the moving vertical pockets to combine the first and second mail streams in the sequence of the master list.