摘要:
A postal gateway system wherein information is conveyed through a gateway among a mailer, a post office, a bank, and a postal agent. With this gateway system, information can be sent virtually simultaneously to the various recipients so that each is current with regard to the mailing operations taking place and accounting therefor even though the format of data of the individual facilities are different.
摘要:
A community-based centralized postal delivery system which operates under the control of a slaved micro-computer. The slaved micro-computer itself being controlled by a master-computer located at the main post office. The micro-computer also being accessible and partially programmable by the postal delivery agent assigned to the postal zone. Typically, the end postal distribution point is an automated storage vault located in mid-block in a residential area. When universally addressed postage is magazine loaded into the vault by the postal delivery agent and the postal patron's mail compartment is occupied, the patron may interrogate an electronic module situated within his home to see if he has mail or facsimile material. Verification of such material is confirmed by the computerized vault returning a unique code with which the patron may access his mail porthole.