Patent ID: 8458199

Claim:
A method for efficiently tracking delivery items, wherein a delivery item has a destination address, comprising: sorting a plurality of delivery items, each delivery item having a different destination address, into a batch based on a geographical relationship among the plurality of delivery items; recording information identifying each delivery item sorted into the batch; transporting the batch of sorted delivery items to a location determined by the geographical relationship; delivering each delivery item to its different destination address; after delivering every delivery item to its different destination address, providing a single signal indicating that all delivery items have been delivered to their different destination address; and indicating, based on the single signal, that each delivery item is located at its different destination address, for each delivery item having recording information identifying the delivery item as sorted into the batch; updating a database entry associated with the destination address of the delivery item, for each destination address of each delivery item having recording information identifying the delivery item as sorted into the batch, wherein the database entry is accessible by a user associated with the destination address; retrieving information associated with the delivery item from a tracking system that tracked the delivery item as the item traveled from a sender of the delivery item to the destination address; and recording the information in the database entry associated with the destination address.