Patent ID: 8793195

Claim:
An automated method for addressing a mail piece, the method comprising: receiving an order for the printing of an individual print job comprising customer-specified content to be printed on a plurality of mail pieces; receiving selection of a mailing list containing at least a plurality of addresses with which the customer desires the plurality of mail pieces be addressed; associating the received mailing list with the order; selecting the individual print job to be combined along with a plurality of other individual print jobs from orders placed by different customers into an aggregate print job, the aggregate print job arranged with the customer-specified content from each of the selected individual print jobs in each of a plurality of predetermined positions in an aggregate print job layout; by one or more processors, incorporating into each individual print job selected for aggregation into the aggregate print job an identifier identifying the aggregate print job and the position of the respective individual print job in the aggregate print job layout; printing a plurality of copies of the aggregate print job to simultaneously print the aggregated individual print jobs and separating the plurality of copies into individual mail pieces corresponding to different customer orders; reading an identifier from a mail piece of the plurality of mail pieces; using the identifier to identify, by one or more processors, the mailing list associated with the order; selecting a mailing address from the identified mailing list; and printing the selected mailing address on the mail piece.