A method for delivering a plurality of items to a plurality of delivery locations uses a mobile transport vehicle to transport a plurality of delivery robots to a first robot drop location. The robots are released at the first robot drop location and travel to assigned, respective delivery locations, which are in the vicinity of the first robot drop location. After completing delivery, each of the robots may proceed to a first robot pick-up location which may be different from the first drop off location. The robots are collected by a mobile transport vehicle and are transported to a second robot drop off location. While being transported, the robots can be reloaded with items for delivery in the vicinity of the second drop off location. A system may include one or more such mobile transport vehicles and a plurality of such robots, under the control of a server.

The various embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method for operating a system for managing approval requests using email.

A direct mail hybrid transportation allocation optimization system and method includes receiving at least one as-marked mail data file associated with at least one mail job having a plurality of mail pieces, wherein the mail data file includes as-marked data identifying a plurality of USPS destination entry locations for the plurality of mail pieces, each mail piece having a corresponding tray and a corresponding pallet, receiving a pricing scenario associated with transportation methods, including consolidation, co-palletization, and commingle, performing a hybrid transportation cost optimization which includes an iterative analysis based on the as-marked data and the pricing scenario, and generating a optimized transportation allocation data file, based on the hybrid cost optimization, the optimized transportation allocation data file includes data identifying optimized transport allocation, including at least one of consolidation mail services, co-palletization mail services or commingle mail services for each mail piece, tray or pallet.

The various embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method for operating a system for managing approval requests using email.

The present invention relates to the technical field of computers. Disclosed are a mailing method and a mailing apparatus. An embodiment of the method comprises: in response to a mailing request from a user, sending an open instruction to an intelligent mailing cabinet, controlling an article placement region of the intelligent mailing cabinet to open, and acquiring article information of an article to be mailed already placed inside the article placement region; generating recommended service information according to the acquired article information, and sending the recommended service information to the intelligent mailing cabinet, such that the intelligent mailing cabinet displays the recommended service information; and in response to the user making an adjustment to the recommended service information, determining mailing service information corresponding to the article, and controlling the intelligent mailing cabinet to perform a mailing operation with respect to the article according to the mailing service information.