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.

A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating an error reconciliation report include receiving operational input data obtained by one or more automated sensors, as well as receiving electronic data records, in the form of one or more IMb data sources, for each mail piece from manufacturing processes, during mail processing; receiving an error report, which comprises a list of Intelligent Mailer barcodes (IMbs) alleged to contain errors associated therewith, wherein the error report is generated automatically by a postal authority; loading the operational input data and the error report into an IMb database; providing an error reconciliation processor in electrical communication with the IMb database; comparing, using the error reconciliation processor, the operational input data against the list of IMbs from the error report against one or more criteria; and generating an error reconciliation report, which comprises results of the comparing step.

The invention relates to the logistical linking of package flows with goods flows by positioning common package acceptance stations (gPAS) at or in goods-sales-branches (WVF) where the goods (W) aresold.

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.

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.

Systems and methods of managing incorrectly addressed items in a distribution network. A user can identify via an interface items which are incorrectly labelled, addressed, or which identify an incorrect recipient. The distribution network can use information from the user to reprocess items, reroute items, or take other actions.

Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for protecting personal data in digital and physical worlds in which the personal data of a networked computing system is used for physical world communications. Preauthorized permissions or rules of a computing system specify how personal data of a first user, as a user that will receive a mailer, can be used by a different, second user to communicate with the first user in the physical world by sending the first user a mailer. The mailer may be a greeting card is generated and includes personal data (such as recipient name and address) to be sent to the receiving user, but the sender is not provided with the receiving user's personal data such that the sending user may not know the receiving user's address or even the receiving user's real name.

A method and system for detecting postage fraud using an indexed lookup procedure is provided. The method includes generating, at a postage-issuing computer system, a unique postage indicium associated with a unique tracking number allocated to a postage transaction. The unique tracking number provides a mail piece tracking capability within the United States Postal Service (USPS). The method further includes indexing the postage transaction with the unique tracking number; and receiving, at the postage-issuing computer system, a request to validate a printed postage indicium carried on a mail piece received at the USPS. The request includes a tracking number identified from information further carried on the mail piece. The method also includes returning, to the USPS and in response to the request, a determination indicating whether the tracking number in the request matches any records stored in a transaction database.

Systems and methods of managing incorrectly addressed items in a distribution network. A user can identify via an interface items which are incorrectly labelled, addressed, or which identify an incorrect recipient. The distribution network can use information from the user to reprocess items, reroute items, or take other actions.

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