Patent ID: 7344062

Claim:
A system for processing presentation instruments, the system comprising: a presentation instrument reservoir; a distribution stock; a distribution stock reader for reading a code on the distribution stock in order to match the distribution stock with a presentation instrument from the presentation instrument reservoir, and for sensing the absence of the code on the distribution stock; a mechanism for extracting a presentation instrument from the presentation instrument reservoir and for associating the presentation instrument with the distribution stock to create a populated distribution stock if there is a match from reading the code on the distribution stock, and for leaving the distribution stock unpopulated if there is no code on the distribution stock; a reject bin for receiving the unpopulated distribution stock having no code thereon; and a sorter for receiving the distribution stock from the mechanism and automatically directing the distribution stock to a mailing reservoir if populated with a presentation instrument, and for automatically directing the distribution stock to the reject bin, if unpopulated, so that the operation of the system is not interrupted by the unpopulated distribution stock having no code thereon.