Patent ID: 8600904

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium for document delivery with proof of service for physical and electronic documents, the computer readable medium embodying a set of instructions which, when executed by one or more computer processors, comprises: a document receipt code segment configured to receive electronic documents for delivery to one or more physical and/or electronic endpoints, the document receipt code segment being further configured to receive a request for proof of service of each received electronic document to the one or more physical and/or electronic endpoints; a mail delivery code segment configured to determine whether a received electronic document is to be delivered to a recipient via physical or electronic endpoint based on recipient data, wherein the mail delivery code segment is further configured to deliver the received electronic document to an electronic endpoint, if the determined endpoint is electronic; a formatting code segment configured to format each received physical endpoint according to a formatting standard that permits aggregation of received electronic documents from multiple senders to a physical endpoint composed of known address components that substantially match address components for more than one received physical endpoint; an aggregation code segment configured to facilitate the aggregation of physical documents into a single multi-document package from the multiple senders for delivery to the one or more endpoints, if the determined endpoint is physical; a proof of service code segment configured to provide proof of service of each served physical and/or electronic document if a proof of service request has been received; and a receipt record code segment configured to generate and deliver a receipt record to a shipper, wherein the receipt record includes delivery data for the physical and/or electronic document, including the time a physical document was released to a carrier for physical delivery and/or the time an electronic document was delivered to an electronic endpoint; and a validation code segment configured to validate, based on either a unique identification code for each received electronic document or a unique package identification number for the single multi-document package, that the multi-document package addressed to the physical endpoint includes all received electronic documents for a recipient at the physical endpoint.