Patent ID: 6974034

Claim:
A mail processing machine, comprising: a first holding location that is adapted to hold a stack of first materials, wherein the first materials comprise cards, and wherein each first material includes an identifier; a second holding location that is adapted to hold a stack of second materials, and wherein each second material includes an identifier; a first advancing mechanism that is adapted to separately advance each first material from the stack; a second advancing mechanism that is adapted to separately advance each second material from the stack; a scanning system that is adapted to read the identifiers on each first material and each second material; a controller that is configured to control the first and second advancing mechanism to permit the first and second materials to be scanned by the scanning system and to match the first materials with the second materials if the identifier on one of the advanced first materials corresponds with the identifier on one of the advanced second materials; a conveyor, wherein the first advancing mechanism is configured to place one of the first materials onto the conveyor, and wherein the second advancing mechanism is configured to place one of the second materials onto the first material if the identifiers are corresponding; and a plurality of inserting locations that are adapted to hold inserts, and a plurality of inserting mechanisms that are adapted to place selective ones of the inserts onto the first and second materials as they pass along the conveyor.