Patent ID: 7991705

Claim:
A method for providing a Mailer, Post or Recipient with detailed information regarding attributes of mail entities, said method comprising the steps of: (A) determining values of a plurality of attributes during preparation taken at two different points of time and during delivery taken at two different points of time of the mail entity; (B) determining unique identity information present on a mail entity; (C) detecting values of the plurality of attributes which are outside of expected ranges; (D) classifying, by a processing device, the attributes which are outside of expected ranges; (E) communicating the attributes which are outside of expected ranges to the mailer using the unique identity information as a reference to a mailer and a post to allow the mailer, the post and a recipient to distinguish between mailer processing defects of the mail entities and errors caused by faulty post equipment or faulty recipient process; and (F) communicating by the Recipient to one of the Post and the Mailer corrections to the attributes.