Patent ID: 8249997

Claim:
A method for performing a mailing job within a mail processing environment, the method comprising steps of: selecting a mailing job to be run by a mail processing device within the mail processing environment based on at least one corresponding mailing criteria; selecting a date that the mailing job is to be executed and/or dispatched; based on the corresponding mailing criteria and the selected date, retrieving: (1) a pallet scheme providing pallet location designations, the pallet scheme having an assigned effective date corresponding most closely to the date the mailing job is to be executed and/or dispatched, and (2) one or more mail sort schemes having an assigned effective date, corresponding most closely to the date the mailing job is to be executed and/or dispatched; updating a pallet location designation associated with the one or more mail sort schemes as retrieved, based on the retrieved pallet scheme and the one or more retrieved mail sort schemes; and running the mail processing device on the mailing job, based on the one or more retrieved sort schemes.