Housing for mail, comprising an automated video monitoring device having a motion alarm function for mail dropping down in the interior of this housing

Abstract

The invention relates to a housing for mail, comprising an automated video monitoring device having a motion alarm function for mail dropping down in the interior of this housing. The invention combines a housing for mail with a digital video monitoring device, which has a motion alarm function and consists of a digital video recorder for data processing for storing, displaying, evaluating, warning, forwarding and providing video recordings using at least 4 digital video cameras which are not mounted in the way intended when they were produced but rather mounted rotated; with a permanently functioning illumination means; with a permanently functioning emergency power supply; and with protective devices for the digital video cameras using fastening devices which are known according to the prior art.

Description

[0001] Description:

[0002] Title of the invention:

[0003] Enclosure for mail items with an automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this enclosure

[0004] Technical field of the invention:

[0005] The technical field of the present invention is housings for mail items, such as mailboxes or parcel boxes, which are in widespread daily use.

[0006] State of the art:

[0007] In the majority of cases, postal items in daily use worldwide are cards, letters, packages and parcels that are sent from a sender to a recipient.

[0008] This document uses the term "postal item" to refer to any object that is physically placed into a mail container or handed over to a delivery service that transports such items for placement into a mail container. This explicitly does not refer only to physical shipments of items transported by Deutsche Post DHL.

[0009] For many decades, the traditional procedure for postal items worldwide has been that a sender indicates the sender's name and sender's address in writing as text on or on the outside of each postal item that they send to a recipient, and additionally indicates the recipient's name and recipient's address in writing as text, and additionally affixes one or more stamps from a postal delivery service to or on the postal item, and then places the postal item in a box for postal items from a delivery service or hands the postal item over to a delivery service acceptance point, and that no further steps are required from the sender to send a postal item to the recipient.

[0010] The written text information about the sender on the outside or on one side of the mail item is necessary in the event that a delivery service is unable to deliver the mail item to the recipient either personally by handing it over or non-personally by placing it in a mail box belonging to the recipient and the delivery service must therefore return the mail item to the sender.

[0011] In the traditional method described above, the sender usually places his written textual information about the recipient on the outside or on one of the largest sides of the mail item and he usually places his written textual information about the sender on the outside or on another side of the mail item that is sufficiently large to accommodate the written textual information about the sender and that is not the side containing the recipient's details, in order to reduce the likelihood that the postal delivery service will inadvertently confuse sender and recipient during transport of the mail item and deliver the mail item to the sender instead of the recipient.

[0012] For recipients of postal items, there are two general distinctions between postal items in daily use worldwide: firstly, the postal items that are expected by their recipient because the recipient has commissioned these postal items from the sender, and secondly, the postal items that are not expected by their recipient because the sender sends this postal item to the recipient without the recipient's prior knowledge of the dispatch of this postal item.

[0013] The present invention provides a technical solution in several forms with which problems of recipients of postal items, which frequently occur in widespread daily use due to the fact that postal items are not delivered by a delivery service to the recipient stated on the postal item and that postal items which were sent by the sender to the recipient without the knowledge of the recipient and whose insertion into the housing for the recipient's postal items triggers the start of a deadline, of which the recipient cannot, however, become aware in time before the deadline expires, are solved significantly better than according to the prior art.

[0014] These problems arise when an authorized mail enclosure holder cannot personally check their mail enclosure daily for the entry of new mail into their mail enclosure because the recipient is located for an extended period of time at a location that is more than line of sight from the recipient's mail enclosure and from which the recipient is either unable to personally reach their mail enclosure or can only do so with considerable effort, as further explained below.

[0015] In the case of postal items, if the sender does not personally place the postal item in a mail box belonging to the recipient and if the sender does not personally appoint a person as a bearer to place the postal item in a mail box, a sender of a postal item usually commissions a delivery service to deliver this postal item to a recipient by having a person commissioned by this delivery service place this postal item in a mail box marked with the name of the recipient as the authorized holder of the mail box and which is located at the location with the recipient's address.

[0016] It is also known that the delivery service uses a robot or drone to deliver the mail by inserting it into the recipient's mail enclosure.

[0017] To commission a delivery service, the sender of the postal item first places his postal items, along with the traditional written textual details of the sender and recipient and with a postage stamp or other proof of payment of the delivery charges, in the vast majority of daily cases worldwide, into a mail box of that delivery service through an entry opening in that mail box on which or at which the name of the delivery service is indicated as the authorized holder of the box.

[0018] In the vast majority of cases, the bearer of a postal item is a person who has been commissioned by an organization, such as a postal delivery service or another delivery service, such as a freight forwarding company, to deliver the postal item and who, for this delivery, places the postal item in a box for postal items on which the name of the recipient is indicated and which is located at the location with the recipient's address, and thus delivers the postal item.

[0019] For each recipient's mail box, there are typically a plurality of senders and a plurality of delivery services that have mail delivered into the recipient's mail box by a plurality of carriers.

[0020] Enclosures for postal items are usually used for the non-personal receipt of postal items, which traditionally only need to be provided by a sender with a written indication of the sender's name, a written indication of the sender's address and a written indication of the recipient's name, a written indication of the recipient's address and with proof of payment of the delivery costs, such as one or more postage stamps that can be purchased without registration, so that the postal item can be sent and successfully delivered to the recipient.

[0021] The sender usually places a postal item, traditionally labelled as above, into a postal box. However, it is also known for the sender of the postal item to hand the postal item over to a bearer, such as a courier, or the acceptance point of a postal delivery service or other delivery service or a freight forwarder, who then has the postal item, traditionally labelled as above, possibly with other postal items for the same recipient, placed by a bearer into a postal box on or on which the recipient's name stated on the postal item is recognizable and which is located at the location with the recipient's address.

[0022] In everyday use, it is known that delivery services and postal deliverers place a postal item on which a specific recipient is stated in writing on the outside into a postal box that does not have the recipient stated in writing on the postal item as the authorized holder and on which the name of the recipient stated on the postal item is not affixed, thus delivering the postal item incorrectly.

[0023] The authorized owner of the mail box into which a mail item has been posted is the actual recipient of the mail item and usually checks his mail box once a day for mail items that have been posted inside, usually removes the mail items that have been posted inside from the box and usually decides immediately after becoming aware of the sender and recipient details written on each individual mail item, based solely on these details, how he wants to process each individual mail item and how urgent the further processing of this mail item is.For example, if the actual recipient, i.e. the authorized holder of the mail box, is not specified in writing as the recipient on a mail item that has been placed in the mail box, the actual recipient will promptly forward the mail item to the recipient specified in writing on the mail item.

[0024] If the authorized holder of the housing for mail items is indicated in writing as the recipient on a mail item placed in the housing, the actual recipient decides immediately after reading the written text information about the sender on this mail item whether this mail item is important to him and how urgently this mail item needs to be processed further, or whether this mail item can be disposed of.

[0025] The manner described above has been used for over a hundred years to handle mail in many cases by many senders, deliverers and recipients of mail every working day around the world.

[0026] In the case of postal items sent to a recipient without the recipient's prior knowledge of the dispatch of that postal item, the recipient named in writing on the postal item may suffer serious health, social, financial and legal damage as a result of missed deadlines if an actual recipient is unable to check for an extended period whether postal items have been placed in their postal box and the actual recipient is therefore unable to take note of the written recipient details and sender details on each of the postal items placed in their box promptly after each postal item is placed and the recipient is therefore unable to decide on the basis of this written text information whether one of the postal items placed in it requires urgent further processing.

[0027] There are a variety of reasons why a recipient may not be able to check their mail box for newly placed mail over a longer period of several days because the recipient is in a location that is more than line of sight away from the mail box, which are common in the everyday life of every mail recipient.

[0028] This is, for example, an absence of the recipient from the place with the recipient's address and thus from the place of his housing for mailings due to a holiday trip, a business trip, a hospital stay or a longer period of work abroad.

[0029] As already described, in the majority of cases occurring daily around the world, a recipient decides immediately after reading the written information about the sender on or attached to a mail item whether this mail item is important to them and how urgently it needs to be processed, or whether it can be discarded. For example, a mail item from an advertising publisher can remain in the recipient's mail box for several days, weeks, or months without further processing because it is not important for the recipient of the advertising mail to open it. However, in the case of a large mail item from a clinic, an important person, a creditor, a government agency, or a court, it can be of considerable importance to the recipient indicated in writing on this mail item that, even if it involves considerable effort for the actual recipient,which is located at a location more than line of sight from the mail box, requires that this mail be removed from the mail box as quickly as possible, opened, and further processed. For example, this specific mail item is opened as quickly as possible by a person trusted by the recipient. This trusted person then reports or forwards the contents of this specific mail item to the recipient, who is far away from their mail box, as quickly as possible, so that the recipient can respond to the contents of this specific mail item as quickly as possible. It must be an order to open a specific mail item if the recipient does not want to expose themselves to the risk that, when opening all new mail items placed in their mail box, mail items whose contents even the trusted person should not know, such as bank statements, are also included.

[0030] However, the authorized owner of the postal enclosure can only give this order to a trusted person to open a specific postal item and to forward its contents if he has prior knowledge that one of the postal items placed in his enclosure may be of significant importance to him or to the recipient stated in writing on the postal item, and the actual recipient can only have this knowledge after he has been able to take note of the written text information about the sender on the outside of or on the postal item.

[0031] In order for the authorized holder of a mail box to be able to take note of the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside or on each mail item placed in his mail box, the state of the art always requires the personal removal of all newly placed mail items from a mail box and for this purpose the authorized holder of a mail box must, in accordance with the state of the art, always commission a person if he is in a location that is more than line of sight away from his mail box and from which he can either not reach his mail box at all or only with considerable effort.

[0032] Mailboxes are commonly installed or set up around the world near, on or in buildings, but also outdoors, to receive mail in private households, in public authorities and in businesses, either individually or in combination with other mailboxes.

[0033] In this case, a mail enclosure is usually attached or positioned at such a distance from the surface in the immediate vicinity of the mail enclosure on which a person using the mail enclosure as a sender, deliverer or recipient is located that an average-sized person using the mail enclosure as a sender, deliverer or recipient and who is in the immediate vicinity of the mail enclosure is able to insert a mail item into the mail enclosure and remove a mail item from the mail enclosure.

[0034] In widespread daily use, the distance between the surface on which a person, as sender, deliverer or recipient of a mail item, is located near a mail enclosure while that enclosure is in use and the side of that mail enclosure which is entirely at the greatest distance from that surface is less than 2.50 metres.

[0035] The surface on which the sender or the deliverer or the recipient of a postal item is located in the vicinity of a mail enclosure during use of that enclosure is, in the vast majority of cases, above the Earth's sea level, so that the acceleration due to gravity acting on a mail enclosure above sea level and which, due to gravity, sets a mail item in motion in its initial position upon insertion into such a mail enclosure at the beginning, without additional energy from the insertion, is a maximum of 9.832 m / s 2 and decreases with increasing distance from the Earth's center.

[0036] According to the state of the art, a large number of housings for postal items are known in a wide variety of designs and equipment variants and possible combinations.

[0037] State-of-the-art postal enclosures are, in the majority of actual cases, a rectangular box with two equal, opposite, largest sides, two equal, opposite, second-largest sides, and two equal, opposite, smallest sides. These boxes protect the mail items placed inside the enclosure from the effects of weather and from damage or removal by third parties while the mail items are in the enclosure. However, cubic and cylindrical shapes of postal enclosures are also known.

[0038] In order to facilitate the understanding of the invention, but without limiting the invention thereto, this document describes a housing for mail items which, as in the majority of actual cases worldwide, is a rectangular box.

[0039] Where a prior art mail enclosure is a rectangular box, the enclosure is typically positioned on a horizontal surface so that one of the two opposite, equal, smallest sides of the enclosure is entirely at a shorter distance and the other of the opposite, equal, smallest sides is entirely at a longer distance from the center of the Earth, and so that one of the two opposite, equal, largest sides is entirely at a shorter distance and the other of the two opposite, equal, largest sides is entirely at a longer distance from the user when that user is on the same surface as the enclosure while using the enclosure.

[0040] The distance between the two equal, opposite largest sides of a mail enclosure that is a rectangular box, erected as described above, is determined in this case by the two shorter edges of each of the two equal, opposite, second largest sides and is defined in this document as the depth of the mail enclosure. The side of a mail enclosure that is a rectangular box, after erection of the enclosure as described above, which is entirely within the shortest distance of all the enclosure sides, of which five are usually not entirely within the shortest distance, to a user who is on the same surface as the enclosure while using the enclosure, is referred to in this document as the side and, more precisely, as the front (6) of the enclosure.

[0041] The side of a mail enclosure which is a rectangular box which, after the enclosure has been set up as described above, is entirely at the longest distance of all the enclosure sides, of which five sides are usually not entirely at the longest distance, from a user who is on the same surface as the enclosure while using the enclosure, is referred to in this document as the side and, more precisely, as the back (3) of the enclosure.

[0042] The distance between the two equal, opposite smallest sides of a mail enclosure, which is a rectangular box erected as described above, is determined in this case by the longest edges of each of the two equal, opposite largest sides and is defined in this document as the height of the mail enclosure.

[0043] The side of a housing for mail items, which is a rectangular box, which, after the housing has been set up as described above, is located entirely at the longest distance from the center of the earth of all the housing sides, of which five sides are usually not entirely at the longest distance, is referred to in this document as the top side (2) of the housing.

[0044] It is usually one of the two opposite, equal-sized, smallest sides of the case.

[0045] The side of a housing for mail items, which is a rectangular box, which, after the housing has been set up as described above, is located entirely at the shortest distance from the center of the earth of all the housing sides, of which five sides are usually not entirely at the shortest distance, is referred to in this document as the bottom side (4) of the housing.

[0046] It is usually the other of the two opposite, equally sized, smallest sides of the casing. The two equally sized, opposite, second-largest sides of a mail casing, which is a rectangular box constructed as described above, are referred to in this document as the sides, more specifically as the right (5) and left (1) sides of the casing.

[0047] The distance between the two equal, opposite second largest sides of a mail enclosure, which is a rectangular box erected as described above, is in this case determined by the two shorter edges of each of the two equal, opposite, largest sides of the enclosure and is referred to in this document as the width of the mail enclosure.

[0048] A wide variety of dimensions are known for the height, width, and depth of individual mail boxes. For example, one known mail box has a height of 1.04 meters, a width of 0.64 meters, and a depth of 0.63 meters, but there are also known mail boxes with a height of over 2 meters.

[0049] It is known that mail boxes are mounted with their rear side (3) as defined above on a vertical wall and are not located directly on a surface.

[0050] It is also known that one or up to four sides of a mail case are curved in such a way that at least one of the two equal, opposite, largest sides, alone, or together with the two equal, opposite, second-largest sides, forms a case in the shape of a longitudinally split cylinder, a longitudinally split tube, or a funnel. Other irregularly shaped mail cases are also known, for example, in the shape of a post horn or an old wine barrel.

[0051] In the vast majority of cases worldwide, mail items are inserted into a mail box through an input opening. However, it is also known for mail items to be placed against or on a mail box.

[0052] Typically, the entry port of a mail box is an elongated rectangular opening in one of the 6 sides of a mail box.

[0053] This input opening is usually shaped and sized so that the majority of standard mail items can be fed through it into the mail enclosure.

[0054] For enclosures specifically designed for parcel mail, it is common for an input opening to be 620 millimeters in one direction, for example, in the horizontal width, and also 620 millimeters or only 160 millimeters in the other direction, for example, in the vertical height. With the latter size, it is possible for mail items with all sides shorter than 150 millimeters to be inserted into the enclosure with each side first. However, much smaller input openings are also known for mailboxes.

[0055] After a mail item placed inside a mail housing as specified above moves towards the centre of the earth due to gravity, i.e. falls down, until the mail item touches and remains at a distance of, for example, 2.40 metres, an intermediate floor which is at a shorter distance from the centre of the earth than the side of the mail housing which has the longest distance from the centre of the earth of all the housing sides, this mail item can have reached a maximum final speed of 6.869 metres per second inside this mail housing immediately before touching this intermediate floor.

[0056] This corresponds to 24.73 kilometers per hour and an impact at this speed can damage a mail item.

[0057] If the distance between the initial position of the mail item and the final position of the mail item inside a mail casing is smaller, i.e. if the drop height is lower, the final speed of the mail item is reduced.

[0058] It is also known that there are several such intermediate floors in a housing for mail items, and that such an intermediate floor inside a housing for mail items has flaps which primarily serve to secure mail items already placed in the housing against unauthorized removal. With these flaps, a mail item that has been placed through an input opening is initially held inside a housing for mail items and which only open after the closure unit for the input opening (7) has closed, so that the mail item can move further down inside the housing due to gravity, towards the center of the earth. The mail item usually remains in its final position on an intermediate floor or on the bottom side (4) of the housing inside a housing for mail items until the authorized owner of the housing or a person authorized by him removes the mail item from there.

[0059] In the majority of postal enclosures, a mail item first inserted into an empty postal enclosure without any mail items inserted inside the enclosure rotates around one or more of its horizontal or vertical axes due to the energy of the insertion, air resistance and gravity and moves in a half-parabola towards the centre of the earth over a distance between the lowest edge of the insertion opening of a postal enclosure, which is located at the shortest vertical distance from all sides of the insertion opening to the centre of the earth, and an intermediate floor of the postal enclosure located at an even shorter distance from the centre of the earth inside the enclosure.thus falls down to the intermediate floor and remains on the lower intermediate floor of the mail box until it is removed by the authorized owner of the box or by an authorized representative of that owner, and that subsequent mail items placed into the mail box in the same way as the first mail item placed therein rotate around one or more of their horizontal or vertical axes due to the energy of the input, air resistance, and gravity and move in a half-parabola towards the center of the Earth inside the box and remain due to gravity on the same intermediate floor as the first mail item placed therein at a shorter, perpendicular distance from the center of the Earth until it is removed by the authorized owner of the box or by an authorized representative of that owner.

[0060] But it is also known that second and subsequent mail items inserted rotate about one or more of their horizontal or vertical axes due to the energy of the insertion, air resistance and gravity and move in a half parabola towards the center of the Earth inside the casing and, due to gravity, remain at a slightly greater distance from the center of the Earth than the first mail item inserted, for example, on one of the sides of the first mail item inserted, until they are removed by the authorized owner of the casing or an agent designated by that owner.

[0061] However, housings for postal items are also known in which the intermediate floor described above, onto which the postal items initially fall, and the bottom side (4) of the housing for postal items, as described above, which is located at the shortest vertical distance of all housing sides from the center of the earth, both have an opening through which postal items placed into the housing for postal items fall, due to gravity, in a vertical direction towards the center of the earth into another container or to another location which is located at an even shorter vertical distance from the center of the earth below the housing for postal items.

[0062] It is well known that postal items can include cards, letters, packages and parcels of varying dimensions, with packaging of varying hardness or flexibility, and with varying weights, including particularly heavy parcels with particularly bulky dimensions.

[0063] It is also known that the contents of mail can vary greatly. For example, in addition to personal messages, advertising mail, drawings, and books, ordered goods and important notices from authorities or courts are also known to be included in mail. Furthermore, the value of such mail can vary from almost worthless to extremely valuable.

[0064] It is well known that the written information on or attached to a mail item provides the first clue to its contents. For example, mail from a loved one will contain important personal information for the recipient, mail from a seller will contain ordered goods, and mail from the tax office will contain important official information.

[0065] The majority of mail is typically a rectangular object with two equal, opposite, largest sides, two equal, opposite, second-largest sides, and two equal, opposite, smallest sides. In the case of letters and envelopes, the thickness of the letter determines the height of the two opposite, equal, second-largest sides and the two opposite, equal, smallest sides, but not their length.

[0066] However, completely different shapes of postal items are also known, such as a cylinder or completely irregular shapes of postal items.

[0067] Due to the predominantly usual form of postal items described above and due to greater practicality, it is customary in the majority of cases in widespread daily use for postal items to be placed into a postal enclosure not with one of the two equal, opposite, largest sides first, but with one of the two opposite, second largest sides or with one of the two opposite, smallest sides first.

[0068] Worldwide, the many existing postal delivery services, other delivery services and mail carriers have set multiple maximum sizes and weights of mail items with maximum distances in their price lists.

[0069] In Germany, there are, among others, the standardized letter envelope formats CO, C1, C2, C3 with 450 x 324 millimeters, C4 with 324 x 229 millimeters, C5 with 229 x 162 millimeters, C6 with 162 x 114 millimeters, C7 with 113 x 82 millimeters and DL with 220 x 110 millimeters, whereby the large or long side of the C4 envelope format corresponds to the narrow or short side of the C3 envelope format and the large or long side of the C4 envelope format is wider than the wide or long side of the DL envelope format.

[0070] The short or narrow side of the DL envelope format is 125 millimeters shorter than the short or narrow side of the C4 envelope format.

[0071] The thickness or height of an envelope depends on the contents it can hold.

[0072] Depending on the binding, an envelope in the C4 format can hold 130 sheets of A4 paper measuring 297 x 210 millimeters, each weighing 80 grams per square meter, and is then usually a 15 millimeter thick or high C4 envelope with a total weight of 660 grams.

[0073] The smallest facing pages, i.e. the narrow or short side of a C4-sized envelope filled with 130 A4 sheets as above, are then each 15 by 229 millimetres, the second largest facing pages are then each 15 by 324 millimetres and the largest facing pages are then 229 by 324 millimetres.

[0074] A DL-sized envelope containing one sheet of A4 paper measuring 297 x 210 millimeters at 80 grams per square meter typically weighs 10 grams, depending on the ink or stickers used, and is typically 2 millimeters thick or high. A DL-sized envelope containing 15 sheets of A4 paper measuring 297 x 210 millimeters, each at 80 grams per square meter, typically weighs 75 grams, depending on the ink, stickers, and binding used, and is typically 7 millimeters thick or high.

[0075] The smallest opposite sides, i.e. the two narrow or short sides of an envelope in DL format filled with 15 A4 sheets as above, are then each 7 by 110 millimetres in size, the second largest opposite sides are then each 7 by 220 millimetres in size and the largest opposite sides then remain unchanged at 220 by 110 millimetres in size.

[0076] The maximum weight of a letter accepted by the German Post Office is 1 kilogram, so the sender must use another delivery service for heavier mail or send this envelope as a small parcel with the German Post Office.

[0077] Furthermore, in Germany there are envelopes for letters in B4 format with 353 x 250 millimeters, this format with a thickness or height of usually 32 millimeters depending on the binding is the largest envelope format that the German Post Office still accepts as a letter and can hold a maximum of 290 sheets of paper in A4 format with 297 x 210 millimeters, each with 80 grams per square meter, but such an envelope then usually has a total weight of 1.5 kilograms.

[0078] Standard small parcels from Deutsche Post weigh more than 1 kilogram and can measure up to 350 x 100 x 250 millimeters, or, at higher price levels, up to 600 x 300 x 150 millimeters, and may weigh a maximum of 2 kilograms each. Other delivery services have similar formats and weights for mail items.

[0079] Standard parcels from Deutsche Post weigh more than 2 kilograms and can measure up to 600 x 600 x 1200 millimeters, or a maximum length of 1750 millimeters and weigh up to 31.5 kilograms. Bulky goods parcels can measure up to 3000 millimeters in girth. These formats and weights for mail items are similar for other delivery services.

[0080] Usually and traditionally, the written information about the recipient and sender is printed on the outside of postal items such as cards, letters, packages and parcels on or on one of the two largest sides of these items and can be read.

[0081] But it is often the case, especially with envelopes, that the recipient is indicated in writing and can be recorded on one of the two largest sides of a mail item, while the sender of this mail item is indicated in writing and can be recorded on the opposite, other largest side of the same mail item.

[0082] What all state-of-the-art postal enclosures have in common is that a sender or a deliverer can insert the postal items into the enclosure through an input opening for postal items in the postal enclosure by pushing, inserting or placing them into the enclosure or in another way, for example using a special device to increase the security of money letters.

[0083] The input opening is an elongated rectangle

[0084] In the majority of cases, in widespread daily use, the input opening of a mail enclosure is located in the side of a mail enclosure which, of all the enclosure sides, has the shortest distance to the user of the enclosure when the user inserts mail into the enclosure or removes mail from the enclosure and, in order to insert mail into the mail enclosure, has approached the mail enclosure in a way that is most obvious to an uninvolved third party based on the circumstances at the location of the mail enclosure.

[0085] In a conventional rectangular mail box, positioned as described above, the input opening is generally located in one of the two equal, opposite, largest sides of the box, if the mail box is a rectangular box positioned upright in front of the user, with its maximum height and minimum depth. In most cases, this is the front side (6) of the mail box, as already defined in this document.

[0086] In this front side (6) of the housing for mail items, the input opening is usually located at a position where the lowest edge of the input opening, which has the shortest vertical distance from all edges of the input opening to the center of the earth and has the longest possible vertical distance from the intermediate floor on which the mail items remain inside the housing after being inserted into the housing, is the highest possible point for the input opening.

[0087] This ensures that the maximum storage capacity of a housing for mail items, due to the side sizes of a housing for mail items, can be used to store mail items and that the mail items placed inside are nevertheless protected from the weather even if there is no locking unit (7) in front of the input opening or if this locking unit (7) is open.

[0088] From the perspective of a user, especially if they are tall, the side of the housing that is completely at the shortest distance from the user can also be the side that, of all sides of the housing except the closure unit (7), has the longest distance from the center of the earth. This is then the top side (2) of the housing for mail items, as already defined in this document.

[0089] If the input opening is located in the top side (2), then it is usually only slightly smaller than the top side (2), so that the top side (2) only consists of a border around the input opening.

[0090] If the access opening of a case is located on the top side (2) of the case, it is common for this access opening to be closed with a locking unit for weather protection. This locking unit is typically attached with a hinge-like fastening on the side of the case that is the farthest from a user during use.

[0091] At the time when one of the mail items to be inserted into a housing for mail items is inserted into an input opening at the usual location in the front (6) of the housing, i.e. a side of the housing which is completely at the shortest distance from a user of the housing during use of the housing, by a sender or a deliverer with one of the two opposite, second largest or with one of the two opposite, smallest sides of the mail item first into a housing for mail items, one of the two largest, opposite sides of the mail item is first the lowest side which, in a vertical direction, has the shortest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the mail item.

[0092] From the moment that more than half the weight of the mail item has been placed into the input opening of the mail housing, in the majority of cases in widespread daily use the mail item rotates around one of its horizontal or vertical axes with the side inserted first facing down in the direction of the center of the earth due to the kinetic energy of the input and due to gravity, because the part of the mail item not yet inserted is still held at a largely unchanged distance from the center of the earth by the sides of the input opening. After insertion, the mail item then continues to move in a half parabola towards the center of the earth. The rotation of the mail item caused by insertion usually continues and only ends when the mail item touches an obstacle, such as an intermediate floor inside the housing.As a result, one of the two opposite largest sides of all sides of a mail item is no longer the side of the mail item that is on the bottom and for which the perpendicular distance from the center of the earth is the shortest, as is the case during insertion. Instead, at a given point in time during rotation, the side of the mail item that is first inserted into the mail item housing is then the side of the mail item that is on the bottom and for which the perpendicular distance from the center of the earth is the shortest of all sides of the mail item. The inserted mail item can rotate about several of its horizontal axes and, coincidentally, also about several of its vertical axes, and this rotation can be incomplete or multiple.

[0093] As the drop distance increases, the completeness of the rotation increases, and the horizontal axis of rotation as well as the vertical axis of rotation can shift. Due to this rotation of each mail item inside a mail housing with an internal space that allows this rotation, during the insertion and subsequent fall of the mail item inside the housing, an outer side of the inserted mail item is always opposite one of the inner sides of the mail housing, which is not the previously described intermediate floor or the lower floor side (4) of the housing, which is located at the shortest distance of all housing sides from the center of the earth.

[0094] Even if the mail item is inserted into a mail housing through an input opening in the already defined top side (2), the mail item has kinetic energy due to the input from the user towards the housing and this energy is influenced by air resistance and gravity, so that in this case too, a rotation of the mail item about one of its horizontal axes and a semi-parabolic movement of the mail item towards the centre of the earth results. Here too, the inserted mail item can rotate about several of its horizontal axes or, randomly, also about several of its vertical axes, and this rotation can be incomplete or multiple. In this case, too, the completeness of the rotation increases with the length of the fall distance, and the horizontal axis of rotation as well as the vertical axis of rotation can shift.

[0095] It is known that an input opening in a prior art mail enclosure is often closed with a closure unit (7) which is a flap, a door, a plate or another type of closure unit (7), which is for example a sliding device, a disc or a grid-like structure, for protecting mail items inserted into the mail enclosure from the effects of weather and from damage or removal by third parties, which can be opened by a sender or deliverer of mail items in order to insert mail items into the mail enclosure.

[0096] Locking units for input openings in housings for postal items are known according to the state of the art, which can be locked or closed in a variety of ways by means of locking devices and which, in a variety of ways, make the input opening in housings for inserting postal items accessible only to certain senders or deliverers.

[0097] A variety of technical locking devices for the locking unit (7) of an input opening of housings for postal items are known from the prior art, which can be mechanically locked with a simple bolt or with locks and keys, or electrically locked with code entry devices, with code reading devices, with barcode reading devices, with QR code reading devices, with fingerprint scanners, with RFID devices, as well as with cameras for facial recognition and touchscreen monitors for data entry, all of which are attached to a housing for postal items or are located in the immediate vicinity of the location of a housing for postal items and all of which are directed outwards with their detection devices towards the surroundings of this housing and with a functionally connected data processing, data storage and data transmission unit and with functionally connected,open and close the locking device of the locking unit (7) of the input opening using one or more electrically operated bolts or magnets or another lock.

[0098] It is further known that the closure device of the closure unit (7) of the input opening of a housing for mail items can be actuated remotely via a remote control or via another device, such as a computer, a mobile phone or a Wi-Fi tablet.

[0099] Furthermore, it is known from the prior art that housings for mail items provide that mail items that have been fed into the housing through the input opening of the housing for mail items are removed or dispensed again through the same opening.

[0100] And it is known in the art that mail casings have an output opening in addition to their input opening, through which mail items that have been fed into the casing through the input opening of the mail casing are removed from or output from the mail casing.

[0101] According to the prior art, such an output opening in a mail box is often closed with a closure unit, which is a flap, a door, a plate or another type of closure unit, which is for example a sliding device, a disc or a grid-like structure, for protecting mail items placed into the box from the effects of the weather and from damage or removal by third parties, which can be opened by the authorized owner of a mail box or by a person authorized by that owner in order to remove mail items from the mail box.

[0102] Locking units for output openings in housings for postal items are known according to the state of the art, which can be locked or closed in a variety of ways by means of locking devices and which, in a variety of ways, make the output opening in housings for postal items accessible only to certain persons authorized to receive the mail.

[0103] A variety of technical locking devices for the locking unit of an output opening of mail casings are known in the art, which can be mechanical, for example, with a simple bolt or with locks and keys, or electrically with code entry devices, with code reading devices, with barcode reading devices, with QR code reading devices, with fingerprint scanners, with RFID devices, as well as with cameras for facial recognition and touchscreen monitors for data entry, all of which are attached to the mail casing or are located in the immediate vicinity of the location of a mail casing and all of which are directed outwards with their detection devices towards the surroundings of this casing and with a functionally connected data processing, data storage and data transmission unit and with functionally connected, power-operated,single or multiple bolts or magnets or another closure to open and close the locking device of the locking unit (8) of the dispensing opening.,

[0104] It is further known that the closure device of the closure unit (8) of the output opening of a housing for mail items can be actuated remotely via a remote control or via another device, such as a computer, a mobile phone or a Wi-Fi tablet.

[0105] It is also known from the prior art that in the closure unit (8) of the output opening of a housing for mail items, the input opening of this housing is mounted with the closure unit (7) for the input opening of this housing.

[0106] In the vast majority of cases, in widespread daily use, the insertion of mail into a mail box by a sender, a postman, or another deliverer of mail is carried out by simply opening and holding open a flap in front of the box's input opening and then inserting the mail one by one through the input opening into the box or inserting it in another way.

[0107] In the case of housings for postal items into which many postal items are regularly fed together and simultaneously through the input opening, it is known that a mechanical or electromechanical device for separating and / or sorting the postal items fed in together and simultaneously is located on the side of the input opening facing the interior of the housing.

[0108] After a carrier has placed a mail item in a mail box, it is known that the carrier can activate a signalling device on the box, which can be a clearly visible divider, for example, or that a viewing window in the mail box makes it visible to the authorised holder of the box that mail items have been placed in the mail box.

[0109] The recipient can, promptly after seeing this notification device indicating that a mail item has been placed in his mail box, remove the mail items that have been placed in the box through the dispensing opening of the mail box and immediately take note of the recipient's and sender's details provided in writing on the outside or on each individual mail item and, accordingly, also immediately decide on the further processing of his mail items.

[0110] The use described above is the most common type of use of postal enclosures according to the state of the art.

[0111] It enables the sender or deliverer to insert several mail items into the input opening of the mail housing in a short period of time without additional effort for registration, without additional effort for login, without additional effort for data entry, without additional effort for positioning a mail item to be inserted and without additional effort for operating an automation device.

[0112] However, the use described above in widespread daily use does not, according to the current state of the art for postal enclosures, enable the authorized holder of the enclosure, as the actual recipient of each mail item placed in his mail enclosure, to remain for several days at a location more than visual distance from his mail enclosure and yet receive, with high reliability and promptly after each mail item has been placed in his mail enclosure, a notification about the placement of this mail item in his mail enclosure, nor does it enable, with the same low effort as has traditionally been the case for many decades for senders and deliverers of mail,to receive with high reliability and promptly after each entry of a mail item the written text information of sender and recipient on or on the outside of each mail item entered at this remote location.

[0113] According to the state of the art, there are a number of technical possibilities for the identification of authorised persons to enter and remove mail at a mail housing at a distance from the location of the mail housing, with the forwarding of the authorised persons' identification data, which are recorded by locking devices for locking units for openings in a mail housing and are transmitted to remote, automated server databases or to a unit to be operated by a user and with a remote-controlled, electrical locking device, which then, in addition to the on-site operation, or even exclusively without the on-site operation, is functionally connected analogue or digitally via cable or radio or via the Internet, remotely opens or closes a locking unit of an input or output opening, up to and including remote control via a mobile device,which is also equipped with or connected to a database for the reporting data of the identification units, such as a computer, a Wi-Fi tablet or a mobile phone, are known.

[0114] As already stated above, it is known for prior art mail enclosures to include an indicating device that visually indicates that a mail item has been inserted into the mail enclosure, such as a manual pop-up, a window, or an electrical indicator system including lights or other indicators on the mail enclosure, or that transmits such an indication to a network, server, personal computer, mobile phone, or other receiving device at a location remote from the location of the mail enclosure.

[0115] Electrical noise generators on a mail box are also known as signaling devices that indicate that a mail item has been placed into the mail box.

[0116] The following technical solutions are known for automating the process whereby the recipient can receive a notification of the entry of a postal item into his / her postal box at a location that is more than line of sight from the location of his / her postal box with only a short time delay:

[0117] Optical detection units for mail insertions, such as light barriers or electronic detection units for mail insertions, such as simple switches on the locking device of the input opening of a housing for mail, are known which, when the locking unit (7) or the locking device of the input opening of a housing for mail is opened, send a signal via a cable or via radio transmission, such as in DE 20 2014 103 354 U1 and in the German utility model DE 295 042 06 U1 of 17 March 1995, to a spatially distant signaling unit, such as a small lamp or a noise generator, by which the recipient can recognize that a mail item has been inserted into his housing for mail items.

[0118] According to the statements in DE 20 2014 103 354 U1 and in the German utility model DE 295 042 06 U1 of 17 March 1995, these optical recognition units are not video cameras.

[0119] For all such postal enclosures with automated monitoring devices with such optical and electronic detection units, such as light barriers, motion detectors and other switches, it is not possible according to the state of the art for the authorized owner of a postal enclosure, who was promptly signaled that a postal item had been placed in his postal enclosure with such an automated monitoring device, to be able to take note of this at a location more than within sight of the location of his postal enclosure, for example at a holiday resort or on a business trip, with the same low effort as has traditionally been provided for senders and deliverers of postal items for many decades, with a high degree of reliability and promptly after each postal item has been placed in his postal enclosure,Anyone who is identified in writing as the recipient or sender of the mail item on the outside of each mail item reported as delivered and who can decide on the basis of this written text information how important it is to them to promptly process one of these delivered mail items, so that the actual recipient, even with such a technical solution, despite the automated signaling of a mail item, must instruct a person to regularly, if possible daily, remove each newly delivered mail item from their mail case and to inform them, as the actual recipient, of the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on the outside or on each newly delivered mail item, if they wish to promptly, but at a distance, obtain knowledge of the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on these mail items in order to avoid damages caused by missing deadlines.

[0120] Even such automation of the notification process still requires a long period of time after each signalling until the actual recipient, who in the event of a prolonged absence from the location of his mail box, in addition to the cost of such a monitoring device, still has to incur a lot of effort and possibly costs for appointing a person to regularly check his mail box for newly deposited mail and to forward the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside or on each newly deposited mail item to him by the person appointed, who must actually carry out this task, is informed and can decide on the further processing of the newly deposited mail items and can thus effectively avoid any damages impending from possible missed deadlines.

[0121] The probability that an authorized owner of a housing for postal items with an automation device according to DE 20 2014 103 354 U1 and DE 295042 06 U1 of 17 March 1995 will automatically forward the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each postal item that he is not expecting and that has been placed in his housing with such an automation device to a location more than within sight distance through such a housing is 0 percent.

[0122] From US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, the prior art for a housing for mail items with an automated monitoring device is known. Mail items that the recipient is expecting are delivered by a drone into a housing for mail items after a shipping code or parcel code for a mail item has been assigned to the housing. This housing detects these codes using optical scanners or RFID scanners and notifies the recipient that the mail item has been entered into the housing by transmitting an access code to the housing. However, US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 does not provide any information on how a drone delivers a mail item into such a housing. It is not understandable for uninvolved, knowledgeable third parties whether the drone flies into the housing and then deposits the mail item, or whether the drone flies up to the housing and then drops the mail item into the housing.

[0123] US 2017 / 0091 710 A1 provides several optical scanners inside the housing, which are intended to capture barcodes on a mail item inserted into the housing, and several RFID scanners for capturing RFID codes. However, it is not disclosed how the barcodes on a mail item inserted into the housing are to be positioned in front of these optical scanners, which in 2017 always required a short time during which the mail item was stationary in front of the scanners. With such a technical design, the probability that the drone will actually place or drop a mail item in such a way that a barcode on the mail item actually comes to a stop in front of one of the optical scanners is low.

[0124] Once the mail item has been placed in the enclosure, the recipient must log in and identify themselves to the enclosure using this access code when collecting their mail item from the enclosure so that the shipping route and delivery of the mail item can be verified by the sender.

[0125] This enclosure is also intended to be used for mailing and, with one or more optical scanners in the enclosure for barcodes on the mail, and with RFID scanners in the enclosure for RFID codes on the mail, to inform the recipient of the mail about the entry or arrival of the mail. However, US 2017 / 0091 710 A1 limits the type of mail that can be placed in this enclosure and scanned with the scanners to parcels only. This technical design is not suitable for receiving other mail.

[0126] US 2017 / 0091 710 A1 provides for a camera (234) with motion detection inside, which only records the surroundings of the housing for mail items and which serves to identify users of the housing or drones that use the housing for mail items.

[0127] According to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, the camera can also be used to capture codes on the postal items in the housing for postal items, but the camera lens is only directed at the area surrounding the housing for postal items and can therefore only capture users and codes on postal items that are located outside the housing for postal items, because according to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, the housing for postal items is also intended to be used for sending postal items.

[0128] US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 does not provide for a video camera for detecting a mail item moving inside the mail housing and does not provide for lighting inside the mail housing.

[0129] Since a housing according to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 does not provide any lighting inside, it is not possible for a camera to take pictures of objects inside such a housing for postal items.

[0130] The technical design in US 2017 / 0091 710 A1 requires in any case a specific positioning of the mail item in front of the optical scanners and in front of the camera so that the code to be read is actually positioned in such a way that it can be captured by the scanners and the camera. However, US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 does not disclose how this specific positioning can be technically achieved, in particular after the mail item has been posted by a drone, where the mail item can rotate in a variety of ways. Thus, the capture of the codes by the scanner or the camera is actually only possible outside the housing for mail items, and only the written text information about the sender on the outside of one side of a mail item is captured by chance with the technical design of an automated housing for mail items according to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, if the user holds the mail item still in front of the optical scanner or in front of the camera.that the text of the code can be captured and thus, at the same time, either the written text information about the sender or the recipient is captured on the same outside of the mail item.

[0131] Such a technical design of a housing for postal items with a monitoring device also requires considerable additional effort for the sender or deliverer of the postal item, one of whom, in addition to the written text information on the sender and recipient that is already required, must also acquire and register one or more codes with a parcel number or with a shipping number from the deliverer or postal delivery service and affix them in or on or to the postal item and then position the postal items in front of the scanner or in front of the camera on the outside of the recipient's postal housing and hold them for a short time.According to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, these coded texts, which may also be alphanumeric, do not contain the coded name or the coded address of the sender of the postal item, but the codes only contain a parcel number or a shipping number registered with the postal delivery service or the carrier of this item, with which the postal item previously ordered, i.e. expected, by the recipient is clearly identified and with which its delivery to the recipient can be traced and with which the presence of the postal item in such a housing for postal items is made verifiable.

[0132] According to the information therein, US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 only concerns postal items which the recipient expects because he had previously instructed the sender to send them, but not postal items which the recipient cannot expect because he had not instructed the sender to send them.

[0133] Such a technical design of a housing for postal items does not provide for the transmission of the sender's name and address on a postal item placed inside, because US 2017 / 0091 710 A1 assumes that the recipient has ordered the postal item from the sender and already knows the sender.

[0134] In view of the above, the technical solution in US 2017 / 0091 710 A1 for automating the process of reporting a postal item placed in a postal enclosure requires a high level of time and effort for the sender or the deliverer to register with the delivery service, to log in to the delivery service, to acquire the code, to register the code, to affix the code to, on or in a postal item to be sent, and to position the postal items for recording the code on the recipient's postal enclosure.

[0135] When implementing a technical solution according to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, every delivery service incurs an above-average amount of effort for setting up and maintaining the infrastructure required for such automation.

[0136] And in any case, the actual recipient of the mail item incurs greater expenditure due to the necessary equipment of their mail box with the respective code scanning devices and for registration with each delivery service that intends to use the box for the recipient's mail items. It is not disclosed in US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 and its technical design is not possible for a mail box with an automated monitoring device according to such a state of the art to be able to print, with high reliability, the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside of each mail item that is placed in the mail box with the same low expenditure as has traditionally been the case for many decades, promptly after each mail item is placed in the box, even if this is not expected by the recipient.to the authorized owner of this enclosure for mail to a location remote from the enclosure.

[0137] And according to the above, with the technical automation device according to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1, it is not possible for the authorized owner of the housing as the actual recipient to decide, on the basis of the written text information about the sender and recipient on the outside of a mail item placed in his housing for mail items, how important it is to him to promptly process the mail item placed in it, so that even with such a technical solution, despite the above-mentioned effort for the automation device for drone delivery of a mail item, the actual recipient must commission a person to regularly, if possible daily, remove each newly placed mail item from his housing for mail items and to inform him as the actual recipient of the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside of or on each newly placed mail item, if he promptly,but physically distant, wants to take note of the recipient and sender information provided in text form on these mail items in order to avoid damages caused by missed deadlines.

[0138] Even such automation of the process of reporting a parcel from a known sender, despite the capture of a text code by a camera, requires a long period of time before the actual recipient, who, in the event of a prolonged absence from the location of his mail box, in addition to the costs of such a monitoring device, still has to incur a great deal of effort and possibly costs for appointing a person to regularly check his mail box for newly deposited mail and to forward the written text information on the recipient and sender on the outside of or on a part of the newly deposited mail to him by the appointed person, who must also actually carry out this task,be notified and he can at least decide on the further processing of the newly submitted mail items and thus effectively avoid any damages that may arise from possible missed deadlines.

[0139] In view of all the above, the probability that an authorized owner of a housing for mail items with an automation device according to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 will automatically forward the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each mail item that he is not expecting and that has been placed in his housing with such an automation device to a location more than line of sight away through such a housing is extremely low, if they can actually be captured in this way at all, and because of the 6 sides of a typical mail item, well below 1 / 6, i.e. 17 percent.

[0140] The above with regard to US 2017 / 0 091 710 A1 also applies to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 , which also only relates to postal items that the recipient is expecting and which does not provide for a video camera for recording postal items inside a housing for postal items and which does not provide for lighting inside the housing for postal items.

[0141] Since a housing for mail with an automated monitoring device according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 does not provide for any lighting inside, it is not possible to take an image and recognize text on the outside or on a mail item placed into the housing by a camera inside such a housing for mail.

[0142] US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 also describes a housing into which only mail items, which are parcels, are placed. Letters are not intended.

[0143] In US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, a predefined characteristic stored in a database, such as a code for a mailpiece, is compared, among other things, with the aid of proximity sensors and optical scanners in the mailpiece housing, with the actual markings on a mailpiece that approaches the mailpiece housing and has reached the required proximity distance on the outside of the housing for detection. Neither the written text information about the sender nor a video recording of the mailpiece are predefined characteristics according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1.

[0144] These proximity sensors can also be RFID scanners for RFID codes or Bluetooth receivers for Bluetooth codes with identification numbers and shipping numbers.

[0145] In the technical design in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, it is not disclosed how a text or a barcode on or at a postal item can be recognized by such an optical scanner inside the postal housing during an indefinite approach from the outside to the housing for postal items and not when stationary in a specific position, and this is actually not possible for uninvolved, informed third parties with its technical design.

[0146] In addition, in 2018, text recognition in an image captured by a commercially available scanner or by a camera at a standstill outside the housing required at least a short period of the postal item being stationary to capture the image, and during the time the postal item is at a standstill, it is not possible to bring another postal item close to the outside of such a postal housing and capture its text codes, which delays input.

[0147] Furthermore, it is not known from the technical design in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 how the required, briefly stationary position of the mail item for image capture on the outside of the housing is to be achieved and which text code on which side of the mail item is actually to be scanned upon approach, because during the approach only one side of the mail item is positioned in such a way to such a scanner or to such a camera that this side can possibly be optically scanned or captured as an image.

[0148] Such a technical design requires in any case a specific positioning of the mail item in front of the optical scanners and in front of the camera on the outside of the housing so that the code to be read is actually positioned in such a way that it can be captured by the optical scanners and the camera, and US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 does not disclose how this specific positioning can be technically achieved, in particular when approaching the housing from the outside, so that capture of the codes by the scanner or by the camera outside such a housing for mail items is made possible in the first place.

[0149] It is only possible for the written text information about the recipient or the sender to be accidentally captured on the outside of a mail item using the technical design of an automated mail housing according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 if the user holds the mail item stationary outside the housing in front of the optical scanner or camera in such a way that the text code can be captured, and thus the written text information about the sender and recipient are simultaneously captured on the same outside of the mail item. This coincidence that the written text information about the sender is photographed on the outside of an approaching mail item using the technical design of an automated mail housing according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, if it can actually be captured in this way at all, occurs with a probability of only 1 / 6, i.e., less than 17 percent, due to the six sides of a typical mail item.

[0150] US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 also provides a proximity unit for a motion detector for movements in the vicinity of the mailpiece housing, which is intended to activate the optical scanner or camera. Therefore, the camera mentioned in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 is not a video camera that automatically detects movements outside the housing.

[0151] A technical design of a housing for postal items with a monitoring device according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 also requires considerable additional effort for the sender or deliverer of the postal item, one of whom, in addition to the already required written text information about the sender and recipient, must also acquire or register a code with a parcel number or with a shipping number from the deliverer or postal delivery service and affix it in or on or to the postal item.

[0152] According to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, these coded texts, which may also be alphanumeric, do not contain the coded name or the coded address of the sender of the postal item, but the codes only contain a parcel number or a shipping number registered with the postal delivery service or the carrier of this item, with which the postal item previously ordered, i.e. expected, by the recipient is clearly identified and with which its delivery to the recipient can be traced and with which the presence of the postal item in such a housing for postal items is made verifiable.

[0153] According to the information provided by the sender, US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 only concerns postal items that the recipient expects because he had previously ordered them from the sender, but not postal items that the recipient cannot expect because he had not ordered their dispatch.

[0154] Such a technical design of a housing for postal items does not provide for the transmission of the sender's name and address on a postal item placed inside, because US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 assumes that the recipient has ordered the postal item from the sender and already knows the sender.

[0155] The proximity detection units provided in this technical embodiment, such as an RFID scanner with a range of 1 to 15 meters or an optical scanner with a range of less than 2 meters, are intended to detect the attributes that can be detected with them, such as RFID codes or texts and barcodes or QR codes, from a postal item in the vicinity of the housing for postal items when the postal item is outside the housing within its range or when a motion detector indicates that the postal item is outside the housing within its range, whereby upon triggering one of the aforementioned proximity devices, a camera inside such a housing is also switched on and is intended to take live recordings of a recipient outside in the vicinity of the housing or outside of the delivery of a postal item ordered by the recipient outside the housing for postal items.

[0156] The proximity devices in these postal enclosures also serve only to make the delivery of an ordered postal item into a postal enclosure of the recipient verifiable for the sender and the deliverer.

[0157] They do not provide for automated forwarding of the written text information to the sender, which is indicated on the outside of each mail item brought to the outside of the casing.

[0158] In the case of all housings for postal items with an automation device with proximity units consisting of optical scanners and sensors for barcodes and RFID scanners for RFID codes and Bluetooth receivers for Bluetooth codes according to the state of the art in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, it is only possible for the sender to acquire a code as a predefined characteristic from the bearer of the postal item and to have a code registered with the bearer of the postal item and then to affix the respective code to the postal item to be sent before the postal item can be sent, in addition to the written sender and recipient information that is traditionally required anyway.

[0159] Depending on the nature of the registration process at the delivery point, this represents a considerably increased effort for the sender compared to a postage stamp, which does not have to be registered, in addition to the usual effort required for the written details of the sender and recipient on a postal item.

[0160] The technical design of US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 does not provide for the recipient of a postal item, after receiving the parcel code or the shipping code or the access code, to be able to find out the sender's details on the outside of each postal item placed in his or her mailing box by searching the database on the server (158) of the delivery service (160) for parcel codes or shipping codes, because this technical design assumes that the recipient already knows the sender.

[0161] It is not disclosed in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 and its technical design is not possible for a housing for postal items with an automated monitoring device according to such a state of the art to automatically transmit the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside of each postal item that is placed in the housing for postal items to the authorized owner of this housing for postal items at a location remote from the housing, with the same low effort as has traditionally been the case for senders and deliverers of postal items for many decades, with a high degree of reliability, promptly after each entry of a postal item into the housing, even if the recipient is not expecting this.

[0162] In view of the above, the technical solution in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 for automating the process of reporting a mail item that is expected to be delivered by the recipient requires a long period of time and high expenditure for the sender or the deliverer for their registration with the delivery service, for their registration with the delivery service, for the acquisition of the code, for the registration of the code, for the affixing of the code to, on or in a mail item to be sent, for the positioning of the mail items for the detection of the code outside the housing for the recipient's mail items.

[0163] In the case of a technical implementation according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, every delivery service incurs an above-average amount of effort for setting up and maintaining the infrastructure required for such automation.

[0164] And in any case, with the technical solution in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1, the recipient of the mail item incurs, in addition to the costs for the necessary equipment of his mail housing with the respective code scanning devices, also the expense of registering with each delivery service that wants to use the housing for the recipient's mail.

[0165] In view of all the above, it is not disclosed in US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 and, with its technical design, is not possible for a housing for mail items with an automated monitoring device according to such a state of the art to automatically transmit, with high reliability, the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside of each mail item that is placed in the housing for mail items, even if the recipient is not expecting it, to the authorized owner of this housing for mail items at a location remote from the housing, promptly after each mail item is placed in the housing, and to allow the authorized owner to decide on the basis of this written text information how important it is to him to promptly process one of these mail items placed in the housing.So that even with such a technical solution of a mail box with an automated monitoring device consisting of scanners and cameras that capture one side of a parcel outside the mail box, the actual recipient must also appoint a person to regularly, preferably daily, remove each newly inserted mail item from its mail box and to inform it, as the actual recipient, of the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside or on each newly inserted mail item, if it wishes to promptly, but remotely, obtain knowledge of the written text information about the recipient and sender on these mail items in order to avoid damages due to missed deadlines. Even such automation of the process of reporting a parcel from a known sender requires, despite optical scanners and a camera,which covers the surroundings of the casing, in any case a long period of time until the actual recipient, who in the event of a prolonged absence from the location of his mail casing, in addition to the costs of such a monitoring device, still has to incur a great deal of effort and possibly costs for commissioning a person to regularly check his mail casing for newly inserted mail and to forward the written text information on the recipient and sender on the outside or on part of the newly inserted mail to him by the commissioned person, who must actually carry out this task, and he can at least decide on the further processing of the newly inserted mail and thus effectively avoid any damages threatening to occur as a result of possible missed deadlines.

[0166] In view of all the above, the probability that an authorized owner of a housing for mail items with an automation device according to US 2018 / 0 177 319 A1 will automatically forward the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each mail item that he is not expecting and that was placed in his housing with such an automation device to a location more than line of sight away through such a housing is extremely low, if they can actually be captured in this way at all, and because of the 6 sides of a typical mail item, the probability is well below 1 / 6, i.e. well below 17 percent.

[0167] A mail enclosure with an automated monitoring device pursuant to GB 2477 404 A of 3 August 2011 also does not provide for a video camera for recording mail inside a mail enclosure, nor does it provide for lighting inside the mail enclosure.

[0168] GB 2477 404 A of 03.08.2011 is only intended for postal items that are letters; parcels are not provided for.

[0169] Since a mail enclosure with automated monitoring device according to GB 2 477404 A of 03.08.2011 does not provide for interior lighting, image recording and text recognition by a camera inside such a mail enclosure is not possible.

[0170] GB 2 477 404 A of 03.08.2011 also only concerns mail items which the authorized owner of the housing for mail items with such an automation device already expects because he has previously instructed the sender to prepare the mail item, since the recipient has previously assigned corresponding tasks to his students.

[0171] The automated monitoring device in GB 2477404 A of 03.08.2011 requires a very complex, manual registration of the mail item by the sender or by the bearer at the mail box, where details of the sender and the contents of the mail item must be provided before the mail item can be placed in the recipient's mail box.

[0172] After the mail item has been placed in such a mail box, no notification of the mail item's entry into the box is sent to the owner of the box. Instead, the entry of a mail item into such a box triggers the automated printing of a receipt containing a code to the deliverer of the mail item and a record of this mail item in a database.

[0173] GB 2477404 of August 3, 2011 stipulates that the deliverer of a postal item has to go to the trouble of manually registering themselves in a database by entering their name and, if applicable, the name of the sender, and a course number using an input device on the housing for postal items, in which the receipt code is then also recorded. The risk of incorrect information from the sender being entered manually or of the code being incorrectly affixed to the postal item, both of which mean that the scanners in the housing cannot read the code and the postal item cannot be entered into the recipient's housing for postal items, lies with the deliverer.

[0174] Overall, this requires additional effort for both the bearer and the sender, in addition to the traditionally required written sender and recipient information on the mail item. Therefore, while this technical implementation does, in principle, allow the actual recipient to log into a database and search this database, using the previously registered codes and the associated sender information stored therein, for newly inserted mail items. This can then be used to obtain the information stored in the database regarding the sender of a mail item newly inserted into such a casing. However, this only applies if the bearer has actually entered this information on the casing for mail items pursuant to GB 2477 404 A of August 3, 2011, in accordance with the written details regarding the recipient and sender provided on the mail item.

[0175] However, because of the effort involved, a deliverer who, in the everyday use of mail boxes, in the vast majority of cases has no personal interest in the delivery and wants to deliver further mail quickly, will not enter this information on the mail box and will simply place the mail on or near the mail box and the holder of the box will not be informed of this placement, but the deliverer will subsequently claim this delivery.

[0176] Because the recipient of a mail box with an automated monitoring device pursuant to GB 2477 404 A of August 3, 2011, does not receive a notification that the mail item has been placed into the mail box, the recipient has no reason to query the database if unexpected mail items are placed into the box, for example, if the recipient has not assigned any tasks to their students during vacation or holiday trips. And even with a database query, the actual recipient cannot find out which mail item was placed on the outside of the mail box if the effort of entering data into the mail box was too time-consuming and labor-intensive for the deliverer.

[0177] Therefore, despite the significantly increased effort for the sender and especially for the deliverer, but also for the recipient of the mail item, in any case, with an automated monitoring device with a receipt printer pursuant to GB 2477404 A of August 3, 2011, a regular, personal inspection of the mail box by the actual recipient or by a person authorized by the recipient remains necessary, so that even unexpected mail items can be processed reliably and promptly by the recipient. Based on the above, even with such mail boxes with monitoring devices based on this state of the art, it is not known that the authorized owner of a mail box, at a location more than within sight of the location of the mail box, has any knowledge of unexpected mail items that were placed in their mail box with such a technical design.for example, at a holiday destination or on a business trip, with the same low effort as has traditionally been the case for senders and deliverers of mail for many decades, with high reliability and promptly after each mail item has been placed in such a housing, the recipient is automatically informed about the entry and automatically receives the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each mail item placed in it, so that if the deliverer provides incorrect information about the sender of a mail item during the entry process, the recipient continues to rely on the extensive, but possibly not actually given, execution of the order by an authorized person, so that he or she promptly receives the written text information on one side of each mail item placed in the housing, about the sender and the recipient of the mail item,if the deliverer of a postal item does not make the effort to correctly enter the sender of each postal item to be delivered at the input facility on such a postal housing and to register the sender in such a database.

[0178] In view of all the above, with a technical design in accordance with GB 2477404 A of 3 August 2011, an authorized owner of a mail box with such an automated monitoring device cannot learn the written text information about the sender and recipient on each mail item delivered to him and therefore cannot decide on the basis of this data and information how important it is for him to promptly process a mail item that has been placed in it. So that even with such a technical solution, despite the automated code comparison for a mail item, the actual recipient must in any case appoint a person to regularly, if possible daily, remove each newly placed mail item from his mail box and to inform him, as the actual recipient, of the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside or on each newly placed mail item, if he promptly,but physically distant, wants to take note of the recipient and sender information provided in text form on these mail items in order to avoid damages caused by missed deadlines.

[0179] Even such automation of the process of reporting a parcel from a known sender, despite a code comparison, still requires a long period of time before the actual recipient, who in the event of a prolonged absence from the location of his mail box, in addition to the cost of such a monitoring device, still has to incur a lot of effort and possibly costs for commissioning a person to regularly check his mail box for newly deposited mail and to forward the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside of or on part of the newly deposited mail to him by the commissioned person, who must actually carry out this task, is informed and can at least decide on the further processing of the newly deposited mail and can thus effectively avoid any damages threatened by possible missed deadlines.

[0180] In view of all the above, the probability that an authorized holder of a housing for mail items with an automation device according to GB 2477404 A of 03.08.2011 will have the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each mail item that he is not expecting and that has been placed in his housing with such an automation device automatically forwarded by such a housing to a location more than within sight distance is at most 2 / 6, i.e. less than 34 percent, due to the excessive effort for the deliverer.

[0181] A mail enclosure with an automated surveillance device pursuant to CN 2 06 534494 U of October 1, 2016, also does not include a video camera for recording mail inside the enclosure, nor does it include lighting inside the enclosure. It is not an automated surveillance device with a motion alarm function.

[0182] For enclosures for postal items with monitoring devices in a design according to CN 2 06 534494 U of 01.10.2016, it is known to create a device for the purpose of sending inside a housing for postal items, with an image sensor in the form of a camera as a recognition unit for postal items, wherein this image sensor located in the housing is intended to take an image of the postal item in the housing when stationary and with the camera pointing vertically downwards and without additional lighting inside the housing, with which it is confirmed that this image matches an image of the postal item previously taken with a first image sensor in the form of a camera attached to the outside of the same housing for postal items when stationary and only with the camera pointing downwards at an angle of 10 degrees to 30 degrees and possibly in full sunlight, and thus confirming that the postal item registered for dispatch with the first image has actually been placed in the housing for postal items for dispatch.

[0183] A further image sensor is also provided as a camera under the bottom of such a housing, which is intended to enable confirmation of the match with the first image even when a postal item is placed below the housing for postal items.

[0184] However, in the case of all housings with such an automated monitoring device for the purpose of sending mail, which uses an image sensor in the form of a camera inside the housing for mail to confirm the actual placement of an image of a mail item previously taken outside the housing for mail items with a first image sensor in the form of a camera, the sender of the mail item would only be able to do so with a time-consuming and labor-intensive process of registering his mail item with the bearer or postal delivery service, in addition to the traditionally required written text information about the sender and the recipient on the outside of the mail item, with the exact same orientation and yet adjusted to the different camera angles, placement of the same side of this mail item in front of the first image sensor and in front of the second image sensor in such a housing for mail items as a sending device,as well as with a potentially cost-intensive third-party process, such as a database of the postal delivery service or the deliverer with the image of the first image sensor accessible to the sender and also to the recipient, where the sender and also the recipient must first register or log in, which is a complex process, the mail item can only be sent and then the mail item has not yet arrived in such a housing for the recipient's mail items.

[0185] Because it is obvious to uninvolved, reasonable third parties that it is impossible to manually position a mail item in front of a second camera before sending it in such a way that the image captured by the second camera matches the first image captured by a first camera with a different angle and different lighting, it is also impossible for the PLC logic program controller provided by CN 2 06 534494 U to evaluate both images as matching and permit sending. For the same reason, the provided PLC logic program controller will also not send an image to the recipient's mobile phone.

[0186] And according to CN 2 06 534494 U, even if the page with the written sender information was randomly placed manually in front of the first image sensor in the form of a camera and then again randomly, manually and in exactly the same way placed in front of the second image sensor in the form of a camera in the sender housing, it is possible for the recipient to randomly receive an image of the postal item in the sender housing on their mobile phone, but it is not possible for the deliverer of a postal item sent in this way, which is then to be placed by the deliverer into the recipient's housing for postal items using such a sending device, to randomly and manually achieve the same placement in front of the outer image sensor of such a housing for postal items at the recipient a third time and the postal item can be placed into the recipient's housing for postal items.if the recipient's mail box is equipped with the same sending device as the sender's mail box.

[0187] Furthermore, CN 2 06 534494 U does not disclose how it is ensured that the mail item can actually be manually placed by the sender of this mail item in front of the first image sensor in the form of a camera whose lens is directed downwards at an angle of 10 degrees to 30 degrees, on the outside of the sender's mail housing, in such a way that this first placement with the first illumination is identical to the placement in front of the second image sensor in the form of a camera whose lens is directed vertically downwards, inside the housing without additional illumination in the sender's mail housing, so that both images of the mail item,namely, that of the first camera and that of the second camera at the sender's location can actually be compared by the PLC logic program controller in the sender's housing and, in addition, can also be compared with the third image outside the recipient's mail housing after manual placement by the deliverer by the PLC logic controller in the receiver's housing.

[0188] On the recipient side, with such a technical implementation, the deliverer, who is unaware of the first image, must again manually ensure that the third image, which is taken on the outside of the recipient's mail box, is manually positioned and illuminated by the deliverer in such a way that it matches the first image, which was taken on the outside of the sender's mail box, to such an extent that it can actually be compared with the first image, so that the mail item can actually be placed into the recipient's mail box.

[0189] Based on the above, with such a technical design, there is no guarantee that the mail item can be sent, nor is there any guarantee that such a mail box can be opened by the deliverer at the recipient's location to insert the mail item. And there is certainly no guarantee that the recipient will receive the written text information on the mail item forwarded to the recipient and the sender.

[0190] Should the sender of the mail item actually succeed, in the technical implementation in CN 2 06 534494 U, in placing and illuminating the same mail item purely manually in front of the first and second image sensors of such a housing for mail items belonging to the sender, and should the deliverer actually succeed in placing the same mail item belonging to the sender in front of the first external image sensor of such a housing at the recipient's in such a way that the comparison of all three images is actually successful and the confirmation of the entry of the correct mail item at the sender's location, as well as the entry by the deliverer into the housing for mail items belonging to the recipient, the probability is only 1 / 6, i.e. less than 17 percent, that the first image sensor on the outside of such a housing for mail items will accidentally capture an image of the written sender information on the mail item,to a mobile phone and to a database and the sender's details are made available to the recipient of the mail item for a comparison between the image in the database and the image on the outside of such a casing for mail items of the recipient.

[0191] In particular, due to the use of the image sensor in the form of a camera for capturing the first image of the mail item to be sent on the outside of the housing when stationary, it is obvious that the sender places the mail item to be sent in front of the image sensor on the outside of such a housing for mail items in such a way that only an image of the side of the mail item to be sent which shows the recipient's name and address in written text is stored with each image sensor of such a housing for mail items and therefore no image at all with the written text information about the sender on the outside of the mail item is stored by this image sensor if these sender details are shown in written text on the side of the mail item which is opposite the side of the mail item with the written text information about the recipient, which is common practice in the majority of cases in everyday use.

[0192] If a mail item which the recipient is not expecting and which was not sent from a housing with the automation device according to CN 2 06 534494 U is to be placed into the recipient's mail housing by a bearer, a bearer who, in the everyday use of mail housings, in the vast majority of cases has no personal interest in the delivery and wants to deliver further mail quickly, will simply place the mail item in such a housing without confirmation from the second camera because of the effort associated with aligning it in front of the second camera in the receiver housing, where the same alignment and lighting required for image comparison is practically impossible, and as a result the recipient will not be automatically informed by the housing of this entry, but the bearer will subsequently claim that delivery.

[0193] Since the technical design in CN 2 06 534494 U, just as in all the above technical designs of a housing for postal items with a monitoring device for postal items placed into the housing, does not provide for any additional lighting in the housing for postal items and it is usually very dark in a housing for postal items, such a technical design cannot produce a sufficiently exposed image of the placed postal item that is sufficient to record the written text information about the sender and recipient on the outside of a placed postal item with a camera in such a way that it is comparable to an image taken outside and can be sent to the recipient's mobile phone and the recipient can actually read something in the image.

[0194] In view of the above, the technical solution in CN 2 06 534494 U for the automation of the process of reporting a mail item that is expected to be delivered by the recipient requires a long period of time and considerable effort for the sender and the deliverer to register with the delivery service, to log in to the delivery service, to position the mail items to capture an image outside the mail box of the sender and the recipient, to capture a comparable image inside the mail box of the sender and the recipient and, in addition, for the recipient to continue to require a person to regularly check their mail box in order to familiarise themselves with the written textual information on the recipient and sender on each mail item placed in the box.of which no image was taken with the written information on the sender and which the recipient had not expected, and for the continued need to appoint a person to forward to the recipient the information on the recipient and sender provided in writing on or on the outside of each postal item, which this person must actually carry out.

[0195] And in any case, the recipient of the postal item incurs greater expense due to the need to equip their postal housing with two cameras to take a picture and to register it with each delivery service that wants to use the recipient's postal housing, but which nevertheless does not automatically inform the recipient with a high degree of reliability and promptly after each time a postal item that the recipient is not expecting is placed into such a postal housing, who the sender and recipient are stated in writing as text on the outside or on each postal item that has been placed in their postal housing, so that the risk of damage to the recipient due to missed deadlines is not significantly reduced despite the considerable expense for this technical implementation.

[0196] And in view of all the above, even with such a housing, the recipient cannot, according to the state of the art, receive automatically and with high reliability, with the same low effort as has traditionally been the case for senders and deliverers of mail for many decades, based on an image of the written recipient or sender information on a received mail item, which is forwarded to him from a location more than line of sight away from such a housing, and can decide on the basis of this written text information how important it is for him to promptly process a mail item that has been put in, so that the actual recipient, even with such a technical solution, despite an image of one of 6 pages of a mail item inside a housing for mail items, a person with the regular, preferably daily,Removal of each newly delivered mail item from its mail case and notification to it as the actual recipient of the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on the outside or on each newly delivered mail item if it wishes to promptly, but spatially remotely, obtain knowledge of the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on each newly delivered mail item in order to avoid damages due to missed deadlines.

[0197] Even such automation of the process of reporting a parcel from a known sender, despite manual image comparison using two different cameras, requires a long period of time in any case until the actual recipient, who, in the case of a prolonged absence from the location of his mail box, in addition to the costs of such a monitoring device, still has to incur a lot of effort and possibly costs for commissioning a person to regularly check his mail box for newly deposited mail and to forward the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside of or on a part of the newly deposited mail to him by the commissioned person, who must also actually carry out this task,be notified and he can at least decide on the further processing of the newly submitted mail items and thus effectively avoid any damages that may arise from possible missed deadlines.

[0198] In view of all the above, the probability that an authorized holder of a housing for postal items with an automation device in accordance with CN 2 06 534494 U will have the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each postal item which he is not expecting and which has been placed in his housing with such an automation device automatically forwarded by such a housing to a location more than within sight is low, if they can actually be captured in this way at all, due to the work involved for the deliverer and because of the 6 pages of a normal postal item, at well under 1 / 6, i.e. well under 17 percent.

[0199] A mail enclosure with an automated surveillance device according to DE 20 2021 103441 U1 also does not provide for a video camera for recording mail items inside the enclosure, nor does it provide for lighting inside the enclosure. It is not an automated surveillance device with a motion alarm function.

[0200] DE 20 2021 103441 U1 only applies to envelopes, i.e., mail items that have an envelope, even if they are heavy. Such a casing is not intended for parcels.

[0201] From the German utility model application DE 20 2021 103441 U1, the prior art discloses that a housing for mail items with an automated monitoring device according to claim 1 thereof can be a mailbox device with a box (86) for inserting envelopes, with an image generating device for generating at least one image of each inserted envelope and for transmitting these images, thereby reporting the receipt and contents of each of the envelopes, and from the associated description and the associated drawings of this earlier utility model application, it can be seen that it is a mailbox device comprising two cameras and a transmitter for thereby reporting the receipt and contents of envelopes.

[0202] The technical functioning of how such a mailbox device with a camera can report the contents of an envelope is not disclosed in this earlier utility model application, so that this claim is not understandable to reasonable third parties under any conceivable point of view.

[0203] The earlier utility model application does not disclose which type of camera can report the contents of an envelope, so that the technical functioning of the invention and the legitimacy of the claims made therein cannot be understood by a knowledgeable third party.

[0204] In view of the above, all that remains of claim 1 of this earlier utility model application DE 20 2021 103441 U1 is that two cameras inside the mailbox device report the receipt of each envelope by means of a message with at least one image of a stationary envelope previously inserted with a box.

[0205] This earlier utility model application only concerns envelopes, i.e., according to Duden, envelopes that are placed in a mailbox device.

[0206] Based on this earlier utility model application and the technical design disclosed therein, it cannot be understood how the purpose of this earlier utility model application is fulfilled by its technical design, as follows:

[0207] The earlier utility model application DE 202021 103441 U1 describes an upper camera 70A for capturing the first side 80A of an inserted envelope 46A; a lower camera 70B for capturing the second side 80B of the inserted envelope 46A; and a transmitter 30 for reporting the insertion and transmitting the images to a telephone 36.

[0208] According to this earlier utility model application, an unspecified detector 60 is intended to report the insertion of an envelope in order to switch on the cameras and the transmitter.

[0209] This earlier utility model application DE 202021 103441 U1 does not provide for any illumination or other additional light source inside the mailing enclosure, even though the interior of a mailing enclosure typically does not have sufficient light for a camera to take still images of a quality required to identify the subject. Nor does it provide for infrared illumination for night vision.

[0210] Of this earlier utility model application DE 20 2021 103441 U1, the housing for mail items is referred to as a letterbox device with the number 10 in the description and in the drawings, but the box (86) for inserting an envelope into the letterbox device is not shown in the associated drawings.

[0211] In the accompanying drawings, only one box (40) is shown, which corresponds to the housing of the mailbox device 10, so that the technical design of the box (86) is not sufficiently disclosed to be understandable.

[0212] Furthermore, it can be seen from the associated description and the associated drawings of the earlier utility model application DE 20 2021 103441 U1 that the person inserting a mail item into the mailbox device inserts a single envelope with its thin side first, which is temporarily positioned in front of two inclined cameras with the help of thin wires in such a way that both cameras can simultaneously take a picture while the envelope is stationary and that the person inserting the envelope must then let the single envelope fall out of the stationary position again using a pull rod and then move the pull rod back into the position to hold the envelope in the stationary position in order to insert the next envelope and pick it up while it is stationary.

[0213] How the pull rod is returned to its original position for holding the following envelope in a stationary position is not disclosed, so this technical functionality is not disclosed and thus its operation is incomprehensible. If the pull rod has to be manually returned to its position for holding the envelopes, the effort involved will prevent anyone wishing to insert another envelope into the mailbox device from returning the pull rod to its original position for holding the envelopes before inserting the next envelope into the mailbox device. As a result, the following envelopes will not be positioned in front of the cameras, and a still image of the following envelopes cannot be taken.

[0214] Even with this technical design of a housing for postal items, it cannot be assumed with certainty that the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside of a postal item that has been placed in such a housing with such a monitoring device will be reported and forwarded with a high degree of reliability and in a timely manner to a recipient at a location more than visual distance from such a housing for postal items, such as at his or her holiday destination or on a business trip.

[0215] In any case, the technical solution proposed by this earlier utility model is time-consuming and labor-intensive for the deliverer of the mail item compared to the previously usual, simple insertion of a mail item into a housing for mail items, and many different components are required to manufacture the technical solution from DE 20 2021 103 441 U1, so that the manufacturing costs are high.

[0216] It is also not disclosed in the earlier utility model application what the thin side of an envelope is. If the thin side of an envelope means the entire thickness or height of such an envelope, then the envelope can be inserted into the slot of the letterbox device of this earlier utility model application DE 202021 103441 U1 with its largest, widest, or longest side first and with its smallest, narrowest, or shortest side first, but this earlier utility model application does not disclose how the two cameras for still images of the letterbox device can simultaneously capture envelopes that are 250 millimeters in size at their smallest, shortest, narrowest, or thinnest side according to the frequently used B4 envelope format and weigh up to 1.5 kilograms with a filling of paper sheets, and can equally capture envelopes that are at their smallest, shortest,narrowest or thinnest side according to the also frequently used DL format are 110 millimeters in size, but envelopes in DL format do not fall through the inventive curved wires 72 for supporting envelopes in B4 format and nevertheless the curved, thin wires, which must be able to bear a weight of at least 1.5 kilograms and which can hold a 110 millimeter narrow envelope in DL format, without these thin wires obscuring the outside of a Bp4 envelope to a significant extent for the camera lens of the camera mounted underneath for the second side of the mailpiece.

[0217] According to claim 1 of this earlier utility model application DE 202021 103 441 U1, this letterbox device 10 has, in addition to its housing 40, a box (86) for inserting envelopes (46A.46B) therein, the technical design of which is not described and which cannot be deduced from the attached drawings, so that this too is incomprehensible to uninvolved, reasonable third parties.

[0218] According to claim 6 of the earlier utility model application, the box (86) comprises a structure (72, 56) for introducing each of the envelopes (46A, 46B) at an inclined position (84A) and for directing the same to a vertical position (84B), and wherein the at least one camera (70A, 70B) is arranged inclined to capture the envelopes (46A, 46B).

[0219] According to claim 8 of the earlier utility model application, the box (86) comprises a structure (56) designed to provide a temporarily stable position for each of the envelopes (46A, 46B) before its final falling out, whereby the detection still comprises a stationary detection carried out during the temporarily stable position.

[0220] This information can only be understood by an uninvolved, reasonable third party to mean that the cameras of the mailbox device in this earlier utility model application take one or more pictures of the envelope, always while the envelope is stationary, because the cameras are switched on each time an envelope is inserted by means of the box 86 and the detector 60, and are therefore switched off again after the picture has been taken while the envelope is stationary.According to the above, the box (86) not shown is intended to comprise the structure (72, 56) shown in the accompanying drawings for introducing individual envelopes (46A, 46B) towards an inclined position (84A) and for directing them into a vertical position (84B) and a structure (56) shown in the accompanying drawings which is designed to provide a temporarily stable position for each of the envelopes (46A, 46B) before its final falling out, whereby the detection still comprises a detection at rest which is carried out during the temporarily stable position, and this box therefore conceals these structures from the cameras 70A and 70B, so that the cameras cannot in fact take a picture of the envelope at all, but only of the box.

[0221] According to the description, the accompanying drawings and the claims of the earlier utility model DE 202021 103441 U1, the structure (72) is said to be curved wires 72 for supporting the envelope 46A thereon during insertion at an inclined 84A or substantially horizontal position and for further arranging the letters vertically on their thin sides 68 to avoid the next inserted envelope being hidden from the camera 70B, and according to the description, the curved wires 72 are thin and thus do not block the view of the camera 70B, but the box (86) around this structure blocks the view of the camera.

[0222] It is not disclosed in this earlier utility model DE 202021 103441 U1 which technical design makes the bent, thin wires suitable for positioning a 15 mm thick C4 envelope, which is frequently used in everyday use, with 130 sheets of paper in A4 format of 297 x 210 millimeters, each with 80 grams per square meter as content and a total weight of 650 grams for the image recording and are so close together that they can hold a DL format envelope that is only 110 millimeters wide and are still thin enough not to block the view of the camera 70B.

[0223] This view of the camera 70B is additionally blocked, as shown in the accompanying drawings, by the rod 52 for pulling the projection 56, for dropping the envelope 46A, and by the structure 56 when the camera and rod shown in the drawings are mounted in the positions shown therein at the center of the depth (not shown).

[0224] This problem is further complicated if a device is provided with which the pull rod 52 can be easily and accurately pushed back into the holding position for the subsequent standstill recording of the following envelope.

[0225] However, if the pull rod shown in the drawings were to be mounted in the position shown there at the edge of the depth of the mailbox device (not shown), for which the utility model application DE 202021 103441 U1 does not disclose sufficient details, a commonly used C4 envelope with an edge length of 324 millimeters on the longest edge would not be reliably removed from the still image position because, on at least one side 30 centimeters away, the 650 gram envelope cannot be removed from the projection 56 with the rod 52 and therefore the envelope would twist in the structures 56 and 72 and block the positioning device 56 for image recording in the stationary position for further envelopes to be inserted.

[0226] According to the description, the associated drawings and claims of the prior utility model, the structure 56 is intended to be, for example, a projection for providing a temporarily stable position on the envelope 46A before its landing in order to enable detection, which is to be encompassed by the box (86) together with the structure 72.

[0227] It is not disclosed and it is not shown in the drawings how the claimed box (86) is to be technically implemented because, according to the other information available in this earlier utility model application DE 20 2021 103441 U1, this box will make it impossible to take still pictures by the two cameras 70A and 70B shown in the utility model drawings because it comprises the structures 56 and 72 shown therein and thus blocks the view of the cameras 70A and 70B.

[0228] And already in May 2021, according to the state of the art, a large number of technical designs of document capture systems with boxes were known, such as commercially available feed-in scanners in a box, which, in conjunction with a mobile phone functionally connected to it via WLAN, make it possible to position a document, which can also be an envelope, and which is manually inserted into it, in a fixed or stationary manner in front of a camera or a scanner bar for a short time using a mechanical structure that can even be electrically operated, and then to have it picked up in this position by this camera or scanner bar and even to have it automatically ejected again after picking up, whereby the data thus captured is also forwarded to mobile phones or other systems for data storage, data display and data analysis, such as with a reading system, also wirelessly, e.g. via WLAN or Bluetooth.

[0229] And in any case, the recipient of the postal item incurs greater expense due to the necessary equipment of their postal housing with two cameras for taking a picture and for the complex internal, manually operated mechanism, which nevertheless does not automatically inform the recipient with a high degree of reliability and in a timely manner after each time a postal item that the recipient is unexpectedly put into such a postal housing, who the sender and recipient are stated in writing as text on the outside or on each postal item that has been put into its postal housing, so that the risk of damage to the recipient due to missed deadlines is not significantly reduced despite the considerable expense for this technical implementation.

[0230] And in view of all the above, even with such a housing, the recipient cannot, according to the state of the art, receive automatically and with high reliability, with the same low effort as has traditionally been the case for senders and deliverers of mail for many decades, on the basis of an image of the written recipient or sender details on a received mail item, which is forwarded to him from a location more than visual distance from such a housing, and can decide on the basis of this written text information how important it is for him to promptly process a mail item that has been put in, so that the actual recipient, even with such a technical solution, without an actual image of a page of an envelope inside a housing for mail items, a person with the regular, preferably daily,Removal of each newly delivered mail item from its mail case and notification to it as the actual recipient of the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on the outside or on each newly delivered mail item if it wishes to promptly, but spatially remotely, obtain knowledge of the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on each newly delivered mail item in order to avoid damages due to missed deadlines.

[0231] Even such automation, despite the internal structure being difficult to operate manually using a pole and having two cameras that actually cannot take a picture, still requires a long time until the actual recipient, who, in the case of a prolonged absence from the location of his mail box, in addition to the cost of such a monitoring device, still has to incur a lot of effort and possibly costs for appointing a person to regularly check his mail box for newly inserted mail and to forward the written text information about the recipient and sender on the outside of or on a part of the newly inserted mail to him by the person appointed, who must also actually carry out this task,be notified and he can at least decide on the further processing of the newly submitted mail items and thus effectively avoid any damages that may arise from possible missed deadlines.

[0232] In view of all the above, the probability that an authorized owner of a housing for postal items with an automation device according to DE 202021 103 441 U1 will automatically forward the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on each postal item that he does not expect and that has been placed in his housing with such an automation device to a location more than within sight distance through such a housing is extremely low, if they can actually be recorded in this way at all, due to the workload for the deliverer of the postal item at well under 2 / 6, i.e. well under 34 percent.

[0233] In view of all the foregoing, it should be noted that, according to the state of the art, it is known to install a single camera with motion detection inside a postal enclosure, which is directed outwards towards the surroundings of the postal enclosure and records the deliverers of postal items into this enclosure and the recipients or collectors of postal items from this postal enclosure, as well as the approach of a postal item to this enclosure, and that, according to the state of the art, it is known to install a camera without motion detection inside a postal enclosure without additional lighting, which records postal items inside the enclosure when stationary, after these postal items have been manually registered with one of the many possible deliverers, all of which require the recipient to have access to their database.with a manual process for precise placement or with a complex mechanism consisting of many components in front of this camera inside the housing, and that this camera can be supplemented without motion detection and without additional lighting, but with a costly and labor-intensive mechanism, and with a second camera without motion detection but with the same costly and labor-intensive mechanism, again without additional lighting. However, with all postal housings with state-of-the-art surveillance devices, the authorized owner of the housing or a person designated by him is not automatically informed with high reliability and in a timely manner, and not after each entry of a postal item that the recipient does not expect into such a postal housing, of who is stated as the sender and recipient in writing as text outside or on each postal item.which was placed in its mail box, so that the risk of damage to the recipient due to missed deadlines is not significantly reduced despite the considerable effort required for this technical implementation if the recipient stays at a location more than line of sight from the location of its mail box for several days.

[0234] According to the state of the art, the probability that an authorized holder of a housing for mail items with an automation device according to the state of the art will automatically forward the written text information on the outside or on any mail item that he is not expecting and that has been placed in his housing with such an automation device to a location more than line of sight away through such a housing is less than 2 / 6, i.e. less than 34 percent.

[0235] It is known that on Earth, due to gravity, objects moving from a vertical distance of 2 meters greater from the Earth's center in a vertical direction towards a surface at a vertical distance of 2 meters less from the Earth's center, without taking into account air resistance and other braking effects on the object, move with a constant acceleration up to a maximum final speed of 6.271 meters per second until they touch the surface with the shorter distance from the Earth's center, i.e. they need at least 0.638 seconds for the 2 meter fall.With air resistance, a piece of mail will take approximately 2 / 3 of a second to touch the surface at a 2-meter shorter vertical distance from the Earth's center, so a digital video camera recording such a drop from a 2-meter vertical height at 50 frames per second and capturing the entire path of the fall with its lens will be able to record a video recording with at least 31 individual video frames of the falling object as it falls 2 meters downwards toward the Earth's center.

[0236] It is also known that on Earth, due to gravity, objects that are 1275 millimeters further from the Earth's center and that are not held there, move in a perpendicular direction towards a surface 1275 millimeters shorter from the Earth's center, without taking into account air resistance and other braking effects on the object, with a constant acceleration up to a maximum final speed of 5 meters per second, until they touch the surface 1275 millimeters shorter from the Earth's center, thus requiring at least 0.509 seconds for the 1275 millimeter fall, i.e. slightly more than 1 / 2 of a second until contact is made. So that a digital video camera that records such a fall from a vertical height of 1275 millimeters at 50 frames per second and that captures the entire distance of the fall with its lens,can record a video recording with at least 25 video frames of the falling object while the object falls 1275 millimeters downwards towards the center of the Earth.

[0237] And it is known that on Earth, due to gravity, objects that are 740 millimeters further from the Earth's center and are not held there, move in a perpendicular direction towards a surface 740 millimeters shorter from the Earth's center, without taking into account air resistance and other braking effects on the object, with a constant acceleration up to a maximum final speed of 3.814 meters per second, until they touch the surface 740 millimeters shorter from the Earth's center, thus requiring at least 0.388 seconds for the 740 millimeter fall, or just over 1 / 3 of a second until contact is made. So that a digital video camera that records such a fall from a vertical height of 740 millimeters with air resistance at 50 frames per second and that captures the entire distance of the fall with its lens,can record a video recording with at least 19 video frames of the falling object while the object falls 740 millimeters downwards towards the center of the Earth.

[0238] And it is known that on Earth, due to gravity, objects that are 350 millimeters further from the Earth's center and are not held there, move in a perpendicular direction towards a surface 350 millimeters shorter from the Earth's center, without taking into account air resistance and other braking effects on the object, with a constant acceleration up to a maximum final speed of 2.623 meters per second, until they touch the surface 350 millimeters shorter from the Earth's center, thus requiring at least 0.267 seconds for the 350 millimeter fall, or just over 1 / 4 of a second until contact is made. So that a digital video camera that records such a fall from a vertical height of 350 millimeters with air resistance at 50 frames per second and that captures the entire distance of the fall with its lens,can record a video recording with at least 13 video frames of the falling object while the object falls 350 millimeters downwards towards the center of the Earth.

[0239] A digital video camera that can only record 25 frames per second, as required by the European television standard, and that records such a fall from a vertical height of 350 millimetres with air resistance at 25 frames per second and that captures the entire path of the fall with its lens, can record a video recording with at least 6 individual video frames of the falling object as the object falls 350 millimetres downwards towards the centre of the Earth.

[0240] According to the state of the art, automated monitoring devices are also known which are equipped with recording units, such as scanners for text or codes or both, photo cameras, video cameras, thermal cameras, 3D cameras, laser scanners, radio scanners, such as for WLAN, WIFI, RFID, Bluetooth or NFC, but also measuring devices for sound, heat, light, air, weight, density, atmospheric particles and others, which are connected to one or more functionally connected to them, in the same housing or spatially separated, analogue or digital with lines, with cable connections or with radio connections or via the Internet, units for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision of the recorded information and data as well as the provision of the evaluation results for retrieval with spatially separated end devices, such as computers, tablets, mobile devices or other operating devices.

[0241] In state-of-the-art monitoring devices, one or more recording units, such as high-resolution, digital cameras with a high recording speed, RFID scanners, laser scanners or barcode and QR code scanners, usually monitor a specific area together and continuously, i.e. permanently, without interruption. The information and data recorded by them are automatically stored, automatically displayed, automatically evaluated, automatically reported, automatically provided and automatically forwarded in analogue or digital form, either by a unit that is functionally connected directly to the recording units via cables or by one or more units that are functionally connected to the recording units at a distance via cable or radio connections and / or via the Internet for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding.

[0242] The recorded information and data are automatically evaluated by monitoring devices according to the state of the art in such a way that additional data automatically generated by such an automated monitoring device from the recorded and stored information and data, such as the data that something has changed in the usual information and data from the area recorded by the recording unit, is reported to the owner or an authorized person of the monitoring device in analogue or digital form, directly or remotely, via a line or cable connection or via a radio connection or via the Internet and is automatically sent together with the recorded information and data or together with the evaluation result or is made available for retrieval.

[0243] For example, automated video surveillance devices with a motion alarm function are known in the state of the art, which are equipped with one or more digital video cameras, each with a resolution of at least 1920 pixels per horizontal inch by 1080 pixels per vertical inch with at least 50 frames per second, in a wide angle of at least 110 degrees, with night vision through high light sensitivity up to the infrared range, each camera records a video and, in another technical design, with several other, similar video cameras together and with additional functionally connected infrared light-emitting diodes, permanently working, i.e. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 54 weeks a year, monitor a specific area by means of permanent video recording and thus record it as recording units and transmit the recorded video recordings from each video camera to a functionally connected,Digital video recorder with motion alarm function, as a unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding, which uses a large digital storage medium 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 54 weeks a year, i.e. continuously working, to completely buffer the video recordings of each video camera, so that the recorded area is monitored by permanent video recording and buffering of the video recording, and which has an automatic display and evaluation of the buffered video recordings in the form of an automatic motion alarm function whenever the automatic evaluation detects a change due to movement in the buffered video recording,by automatically and permanently displaying each of the individual frames of the buffered video recording at 50 individual frames per second with a resolution of 1920 pixels per horizontal inch by 1080 pixels per vertical inch and comparing it with the respective following individual frame of the video recording, which it also displays in a similar manner, and by automatically and permanently storing a selectably long partial video recording from the buffered video recording, for example with 1 second before and 1 second after the triggering movement, and by sending a message to one or more freely selectable recipients, which can be, for example, a mobile phone number, an email address or an IP address of an internet server with cloud functionality, analogue or digital via lines,Cable connections or via radio connections and / or via the Internet and even forwards the permanently stored video recordings of all connected video cameras in the form of a video recording of each video camera with the movement automatically detected by this video camera, either analogue or digital, via cables, via cable connections or via radio connections and / or via the Internet to one or more freely selectable recipients, which can be, for example, a mobile phone number, an email address or an IP address of an Internet server with cloud functionality.

[0244] It is known that automated video surveillance devices with a motion alarm function continuously mark the continuously recorded videos of the video cameras connected to them with a time and date time stamp visible in the video recording, which is not used for the motion alarm function in the automated motion alarm function.

[0245] It is also known that the partial video recordings of the movements that are automatically created using such a video surveillance device with a motion alarm function are then automatically forwarded as an encrypted attachment to an encrypted email to the authorized owner of the video surveillance device with a motion alarm function or to a person designated by that person and are then received, decrypted and displayed by that person using a smart TV, a computer, a tablet or a mobile phone.

[0246] Due to the large market for the above-mentioned automated video surveillance devices, a variety of automated video surveillance devices with motion alarm function and an even larger variety of digital video cameras which have a resolution of at least 1920 horizontal pixels per inch by 1080 vertical pixels per inch thanks to a 1 / 3 inch CMOS image sensor with at least 50 frames per second, in a wide angle of at least 110 degrees thanks to a lens with a short focal length, with night vision due to high light sensitivity thanks to a lens with a large aperture up to the infrared range and are equipped with additional infrared LEDs for illumination, are available on the market at low cost as detection units for automated video surveillance devices.

[0247] The above-described automated video surveillance devices with motion alarm function according to the state of the art are known for commercial and residential areas or for outdoor areas, as well as for certain areas of automated manufacturing systems, but also for the exteriors and surroundings of mail enclosures, as well as for persons and moving objects that are in the vicinity of a mail enclosure.

[0248] It is also known that such automated video surveillance devices with motion alarm function work with very small video cameras as detection units, which have the required wide recording angle, the required recording speed and the required quality of recording in complete darkness by detecting the infrared light from additional infrared light-emitting diodes that illuminate the monitored area with infrared light.

[0249] Problems with the current state of the art Based on all of the above, there are three main problems with housings for postal items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art:

[0250] 1. State-of-the-art postal enclosures with monitoring devices cannot accommodate all types of postal items that are particularly common in everyday use.

[0251] 2. Casings for postal items with state-of-the-art monitoring devices require a significantly increased effort for senders, delivery services, deliverers and recipients of a postal item.

[0252] State-of-the-art housings for postal items with monitoring devices require the sender of a postal item, in comparison with the traditional procedure for postal items described at the outset, to make a significant effort to register and log in with each delivery service that is commissioned, to enter the recipient's details and the parcel data, such as the size and weight of the parcel, into a database of the commissioned delivery service, to purchase a code, to affix the code to each postal item and, in some cases, to place the postal item in front of a camera or scanner. This effort is in addition to the effort required for the information traditionally required on each postal item, consisting of written text information about the sender including name and address and written information about the recipient including name and address.

[0253] Compared to the traditional postal procedure described above, state-of-the-art enclosures for postal items with monitoring devices require a high level of effort from the delivery services of a postal item to set up and maintain the infrastructure required for these enclosures, such as the dedicated hardware, websites, databases, access to high-security databases, training of deliverers, monitoring and more, in addition to the traditionally required infrastructure effort.

[0254] Housings for postal items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art require the deliverer of a postal item, in comparison with the traditional procedure for postal items described at the outset, to put in a great deal of effort to open housings for postal items using a parcel code, to manually place postal items in front of scanners or cameras, to manually register postal items, to manually operate housings for postal items and more, which is in addition to the effort for the traditionally required opening of the locking unit (7) in front of the input opening and for the subsequent rapid input of each postal item individually into the housing for postal items.

[0255] Casings for postal items with state-of-the-art monitoring devices require recipients of a postal item to make a significant effort to remove a postal item compared to the traditional procedure for postal items described above, as they may have to log in or register with the casing before removing it and they must bear the costs of equipping and maintaining their casing with the automated state-of-the-art monitoring devices.

[0256] 3. Despite the greatly increased effort they entail, enclosures for postal items with state-of-the-art monitoring devices can only have a probability of less than 2 / 6, i.e. less than 34 percent, that an authorized holder of an enclosure for postal items with an automation device according to the state of the art could have the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside or on every piece of mail that he was not expecting and that was placed in his enclosure with such an automation device automatically forwarded by such an enclosure to his location more than within sight of the location of the enclosure.

[0257] The three main problems mentioned above result in the essential problem with all postal enclosures with monitoring devices according to the state of the art, namely that the authorised holder of a postal enclosure or a person designated by that holder cannot, with a high degree of reliability, at a location more than visual range from the location of their postal enclosure, such as at their holiday destination or during a business trip, automatically receive the written text information on the sender and recipient on the outside or on each postal item placed in their postal enclosure in a timely manner after each postal item is placed in their postal enclosure. This means that in the case of postal items that were sent to a recipient without the recipient's prior knowledge of the dispatch of this postal item and whose placement in the recipient's postal enclosure may trigger the commencement of a time limit,the recipient specified in writing as text on the postal item may suffer serious health, social, financial and legal damage due to missed deadlines if a recipient is unable to personally check whether new mail has been placed in their mail box for several days, for example due to a hospital stay, a holiday trip, a business trip or a longer period of work abroad, and is therefore unable to promptly obtain knowledge of the written text information about the recipient and the sender on the outside of each of the mail items placed in their box after each new mail item has been placed in, and the recipient is therefore unable to promptly decide for each mail item placed in based on this text information provided on the outside of or on the mail whether they need to continue processing it, how they need to continue processing it and how urgently they need to continue processing it,so that the recipient cannot, for this reason, meet the deadline triggered and, in order to avoid such damage, the recipient must appoint another person to personally check his or her mail box daily for newly inserted mail and to forward to the recipient the written information on the sender and recipient that is located on the outside or on each newly inserted mail item, and this person must also carry out this task conscientiously, so that, for example, if the person omits to carry out this task without the recipient's knowledge, there is no further risk of serious damage to the recipient due to a missed deadline or a valuable mail item that was sent without the recipient's knowledge can be lost unnoticed by the recipient.

[0258] According to the state of the art, there is no technical solution to the essential problem described above that would make the above-described, possibly chargeable, commissioning of a person unnecessary without significantly increasing the effort for senders, delivery services and deliverers of the mail compared to the usual effort for postal items, which they do not provide free of charge.

[0259] Further problems with housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art are that with known housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art, a device or structure is always required that ensures a stable, i.e., immobile, position of the mail item during detection; that with known housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art, only a portion of the mail items normally used on a daily basis, for example, only letters or only parcels, can be placed in them, so that a notification of the mail item can then be made with the forwarding of codes attached to it to the recipient; and that for each mail item placed in a housing for mail items, the written text information regarding the recipient and sender on or on the outside of these placed mail items is not forwarded to the owner of the housing for mail items;that known housings for postal items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art, due to their mechanics, require a lot of time for the introduction and processing of a single postal item, or due to the lack of alignment devices, require a lot of time for the placement of the postal item in front of a first and a second camera when stationary, and require a lot of time and processing of a single postal item; that in known housings for postal items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art, the box provided for the introduction of an envelope covers the envelopes in front of the lenses of the two cameras provided and thus impairs the cameras in their function; that when operating known housings for postal items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art, the mechanics consisting of thin wires and pull rods of known housings for postal items are difficult to return to the starting position for holding an envelope,which is necessary for the detection of a subsequent envelope, can be brought and this requires additional time, that in the case of known housings for postal items with a monitoring device according to the state of the art, if a sender or deliverer forgets or deliberately fails to bring the pull rod for the manual ejection of envelopes back into its starting position for holding an envelope in front of the cameras before each insertion of an envelope, the subsequent envelope slides over the previous envelope in the image recording position and is therefore not detected and not reported and its information is not passed on, that the mechanism consisting of thin wires and pull rods of known housings for postal items with a monitoring device according to the state of the art has a high susceptibility to errors when actuating the pull rod, because this pull rod, when attempting topushing the pull rod back into its starting position can damage the thin wires, that when a sender or deliverer of the mail inserts an envelope with the thin side first into a known housing for mail items with a monitoring device according to the state of the art, but inserts the shortest, thin side first instead of the longest, thin side first, the envelope falls between the thin wires of the structures for ensuring the temporarily fixed position of larger envelopes and therefore the envelope that has fallen through is not detected and not reported and its information is not forwarded, that in known housings for mail items with a monitoring device according to the state of the art, when the mail item is a small parcel with the dimensions of a letter envelope and is inserted with its thin side into the slot of a known housing for mail items,Because a small parcel weighs twice as much as a letter, the structures with curved, thin wires for supporting the envelope in the housing for mail items are damaged; that the structures of known housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art require a high level of maintenance due to their inaccessible construction, for example, with a box enclosing the mechanics inside the housing; that high costs are required for the manufacture and assembly of the known housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art with many different components; and that housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art do not have sufficient additional equipment to improve the detection quality inside a housing for mail items with an automated monitoring device according to the state of the art.

[0260] Technical task

[0261] The problems identified above in a housing for mail items with monitoring devices according to the prior art are to be remedied by the present invention in a technically and economically advantageous manner.

[0262] The present invention has specifically set itself the technical task of technically improving housings for postal items with monitoring devices according to the state of the art in such a way that

[0263] 1. that more types of mail can be accommodated by the mail enclosure and still ensure that the monitoring device operates reliably.

[0264] 2. that the effort required by senders, delivery services, bearers, and recipients to report postal items in accordance with the state of the art is significantly reduced so that a recipient can, with a low probability of a maximum of 2 / 6 or 34 percent, learn the written text information about the sender and recipient on a postal item placed in their postal box. 3. that the aforementioned low probability is significantly increased and allows the authorized holder of a postal box or a person designated by them to obtain the information with significantly increased reliability at a location more than within sight of the location of their postal box, such as at their vacation destination or during a business trip.promptly after each entry of a postal item into its housing for postal items, the written text information about the sender and the recipient is automatically sent on the outside or on each postal item placed in its housing for postal items, thus making it unnecessary to commission a person to regularly personally check a housing for postal items belonging to the authorized holder for newly inserted postal items, as well as to commission a person to forward the written text information on the outside of the sides of the postal items regarding the sender and recipient to the authorized holder, with the improved, automated monitoring device in the housing for postal items, and nevertheless reducing the effort required for the sender to send postal items, which has traditionally been the case for decades,who only has to provide his mail with written information about the sender and the recipient and proof of payment of the delivery costs and can then place mail into a housing for mail items in order to have the mail delivered to a recipient without any additional costs for registration, without any additional costs for registration, without any additional costs for data entry, without any additional costs for affixing codes or transmitters, without any additional costs for positioning a mail item to be placed therein and without any additional costs for operating an automation device and for the delivery services, which do not have to adapt their infrastructure to the automated monitoring device in the housing and for the deliverers, who, as has been the traditional practice for decades, without any additional costs for registration, without any additional costs for registration,without additional effort for data entry, without additional effort for the attachment of codes or transmitters, without additional effort for the positioning of a mail item to be inserted and without additional effort for the operation of an automation device, the mail items for a recipient can simply be quickly inserted one after the other into the input opening of the housing for mail items of this recipient, is not increased by the technical improvement and thus, even with a technically improved housing for mail items with a monitoring device, a device or structure that ensures a stable, i.e., stationary, position of the mail item during detection is no longer necessary, with a technically improved housing for mail items with a monitoring device, the written on all cards, letters, packages and parcels that can be inserted into the input opening of such a housing for mail items,the recipient data and sender data indicated on or on the outside of the mail item inserted are recorded, reported and forwarded with significantly increased reliability, thereby significantly reducing the effort previously required for senders and deliverers by automation devices as well as the maintenance effort for such a housing for mail items, in the case of a technically improved housing for mail items with a monitoring device, the sender or deliverer of a mail item can, after opening the closure unit (7) of the input opening, quickly insert several mail items one after the other into the input opening of such a housing for mail items,in the case of a technically improved housing for postal items with a monitoring device, the detection devices of the detection units of such a housing for postal items are not covered by other components of such a housing for postal items and thus their function is not impaired, in the case of a technically improved housing for postal items with a monitoring device, the operation of such a housing for postal items is significantly simplified for senders, deliverers and recipients of postal items,in the case of a technically improved housing for mail items with a monitoring device, the written text information on or on all sides of mail items falling inside such a housing towards the centre of the earth is recorded during the fall and is forwarded to the owner of the housing for mail items or a person designated by him at a location more than visual range from the location of such a housing for mail items with significantly increased reliability and promptly after each new entry of mail items; in the case of a technically improved housing for mail items with a monitoring device, the possibility of damage to the units and devices installed in such a housing during use is reduced,in the case of a technically improved housing for postal items with a monitoring device, the maintenance options for such a housing for postal items are improved and thus the maintenance costs are reduced; in the case of a technically improved housing for postal items with a monitoring device, the costs for the manufacture, installation and attachment of such a housing for postal items are reduced; in the case of a technically improved housing for postal items with a monitoring device, sufficient additional equipment is available to improve the detection quality inside a housing for postal items with an automated monitoring device.

[0265] Solution to the task

[0266] The above object is achieved with a technically improved housing for mail items with a monitoring device having the features of claim 1.

[0267] Advantageous embodiments and further developments of the invention are the subject of the dependent claims.

[0268] Advantages of the invention

[0269] The invention advantageously achieves that

[0270] 1. more types of mail can be accommodated by the mail box and the video surveillance device still works reliably and

[0271] 2. the effort required by senders, delivery services, carriers and recipients to report postal items, which must be made according to the state of the art so that a recipient can find out the written text information on the sender and recipient on a postal item placed in his or her postal box, is considerably reduced for all parties involved, and

[0272] 3. the low probability given in the state of the art is significantly increased as follows:

[0273] In comparison with housings for mail items with monitoring devices according to the prior art, the inventive

[0274] Housing for postal items with an automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function for mail falling inside this housing the special economic advantages that in a wide range and inexpensively available on the market Housing for postal items with a wide range and inexpensively available on the market automated video surveillance devices with motion alarm function and with a wide range and inexpensively available on the market

[0275] Additional equipment to improve the recording quality of digital video cameras by means of a wide range of fixed but detachable connections available on the market at low cost by means of a mounting of the digital video cameras rotated by 90 degrees so that the normally horizontal recording range of the cameras records the interior of the housing in the vertical direction and the normally vertical recording range of the cameras records the interior of the housing horizontally, with an emergency power supply known from the state of the art and with special protective devices for digital video cameras built into the housing for postal items to form a new, technically and economically significantly improved housing for postal items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing and thus the costs for the procurement,Production and subsequent maintenance of a housing according to the invention for postal items with automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function are cheap and the one-time expenditure for the required purchase of an inventive,

[0276] Housing for postal items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling down inside this housing, through the permanent saving of high maintenance costs and the saving of the previously required assignment of persons whenever the person is away from home to forward the written text information on the sender and recipient on the outside of each postal item placed in the housing, and that no additional cost-generating expenditure for senders, delivery services and deliverers of mail items, which goes beyond the traditionally required expenditure, is caused by the new invention and the special technical advantages that the majority of the daily mail items can be

[0277] A postal enclosure with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail falling inside the enclosure can be inserted, and different types of enclosures are not required for different types of mail, and that no complicated and maintenance-intensive structure needs to be created inside a postal enclosure available on the market to ensure a stationary position in front of a scanner or camera, at least for a short time,so that the volume available inside the housing can be used to a greater extent for the storage of mail, and that the mail can be easily placed into the housing with the traditional effort and fall down into the housing and collected in the housing, and that the written text information on the outside or on each mail item placed into the housing for mail according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling down inside this housing is actually and reliably and promptly forwarded to the authorized owner of the housing with a significantly increased probability.

[0278] Essentially, the advantageous effect of the invention results from the fact that the senders, delivery services, deliverers and recipients of a mail item, which are placed in the inventive new housing for mail items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, do not have to regularly incur any additional expenditure in the dispatch and delivery of mail items,which goes beyond the effort traditionally known for many decades for sending and delivering, and that nevertheless the authorized owner of a housing for postal items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, after each insertion of a mail item into a new housing for postal items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, receives the written information on 6 pages of each mail item regarding the recipient and the sender of the mail item automatically in video recordings via email, and that this email, for every currently commercially available mobile phone of a recipient, immediately upon receipt by the recipient, notifies the owner of the mobile phone of the receipt of this email.

[0279] Based on the present invention, the owner of a housing for mail items according to the invention can obtain prompt knowledge of the recipient and sender information written in text form on the outside or on each mail item placed in his housing for mail items with an automated

[0280] Video surveillance device with motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, after viewing the video in the email, decide how important it is to him, as the actual recipient, to promptly process one of the mail items placed in his housing for mail items, and the actual recipient can then instruct a trusted person to further process a specific mail item from a specific sender in order to find out the contents of a mail item that is important to him and to respond to it, or interrupt his distant stay and travel back to his address so that he can find out the contents of a mail item that is important to him and to respond to it.

[0281] By means of the automation provided by the present invention, it is advantageously no longer possible for the recipient of a mail item to miss a deadline which is stated in a mail item which has been placed in his mail case and which begins with the entry into the mail case, because he is automatically informed of each sender of each mail item which is placed in his mail case by means of video recordings of each mail item shortly after the entry.

[0282] With the housing for mail items according to the invention, which has an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, it is advantageously achieved that the authorized owner of a housing for mail items or a person designated by him with significantly increased reliability, at a location more than visual range from the location of his housing for mail items, such as at his holiday destination or during a business trip, promptly after each mail item is placed in his housing for mail items, the written text information on the sender and the recipient is automatically sent on the outside or on this mail item, thus making it possible to commission a person to regularly personally check a housing for mail items belonging to the authorized owner for newly placed mail items,as well as appointing a person to forward the written text information on the outside of the postal items relating to the sender and recipient to the authorized holder, with the improved, automated video surveillance device in the housing for postal items, is made superfluous and nevertheless the effort traditionally required for decades for the dispatch of postal items for the sender, who only has to provide his postal items with written text information on the sender and recipient and a proof of payment of the delivery costs and thereafter without additional effort for registration, without additional effort for registration, without additional effort for data entry, without additional effort for the attachment of codes or transmitters,without additional effort for positioning a mail item to be inserted and without additional effort for operating an automation device, mail items can be inserted into a mail box in order to have the mail item delivered to a recipient, and for the delivery services, which do not have to adapt their infrastructure to the automated video surveillance device in the box, and for the deliverers, who, as has been traditional for decades, without additional effort for registration, without additional effort for login, without additional effort for data entry, without additional effort for the attachment of codes or transmitters,without additional effort for positioning a mail item to be inserted and without additional effort for operating an automation device, the mail items for a recipient can simply be quickly inserted one after the other into the input opening of the housing for mail items of this recipient, is not increased and thus also with the housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, it is advantageously achieved that a device or structure that ensures a stable, i.e., motionless, position of the mail item during detection is no longer necessary, with the housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing,the recipient and sender data indicated in writing on all cards, letters, packages and parcels that can be inserted into the input opening of such a housing for postal items, on or on the outside of the inserted postal item, are recorded, reported and forwarded with significantly increased reliability, and the effort previously required for senders and deliverers by automation devices as well as the maintenance effort for such a housing for postal items is significantly reduced, with the housing for postal items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing is achieved in an advantageous manner,that the sender or deliverer of a mail item can, after opening the closure unit of the input opening, quickly insert several mail items one after the other into the input opening of such a housing for mail items, with the housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a movement alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, it is advantageously achieved that the detection devices of the detection units of such a housing for mail items are not covered by other components of such a housing for mail items and thus their function is impaired, with the housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a movement alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, it is advantageously achieved that the operation of such a housing for mail items for senders,The mail box according to the invention, with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail falling inside the box, advantageously ensures that the written text information on or on all sides of mail falling inside the box towards the centre of the earth is recorded during the fall and is forwarded to the owner of the mail box or a person designated by him at a location more than within sight of the location of the box with significantly increased reliability and promptly after each new mail entry.With the housing for mail items according to the invention, which has an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside the housing, it is advantageously achieved that the possibility of damage to the units and devices mounted in such a housing during use is reduced. With the housing for mail items according to the invention, which has an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside the housing, it is advantageously achieved that the maintenance options for such a housing for mail items are improved and thus the maintenance costs are reduced. With the housing for mail items according to the invention, which has an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside the housing, it is advantageously achieved thatthat the costs for the manufacture, installation and installation of such a housing for mail items are reduced, with the housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, it is advantageously achieved that sufficient additional equipment is available to improve the detection quality inside a housing for mail items with an automated video surveillance device.

[0283] Detailed description

[0284] In detail, the housing for mail items newly created by the invention to solve the above problem and to the particular advantage is technically implemented with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, as described in detail below, without limiting the invention to this detailed description and with the further technical embodiments, which also do not limit the invention to these embodiments, and by the attached schematic drawings, which do not limit the invention to the content of the drawings:

[0285] To achieve the above object and for particular advantage, a housing for postal items improved according to the invention is provided, comprising an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside the housing, in which a housing for postal items known from the prior art, with a permanently operating, automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function known from the prior art, which is a digital video recorder with data processing for storing, displaying, evaluating, reporting, forwarding and providing data and information, wherein the data and information are video recordings made by detection units which are digital video cameras known from the prior art, but which are not mounted in the manner intended during their manufacture and which are provided with apermanently operating additional equipment to improve the detection quality of these detection units in the form of a lamp known in the state of the art and combined with a permanently operating emergency power supply known in the state of the art, with the aid of fastening devices known in the state of the art.

[0286] In particular, the housing according to the invention for mail items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing is, in one of many possible embodiments, technically advantageously designed such that it is a rectangular box which is fixedly attached to a horizontal surface or which is fixedly attached to a wall.

[0287] If the housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing is firmly attached to the horizontal surface, then the housing is set up on a horizontal surface in such a way that one of the two opposite, equally sized, smallest sides of the housing is located entirely at a shorter distance and the other of the opposite, equally sized, smallest sides is located entirely at a longer distance from the center of the earth and that one of the two opposite, equally sized, largest sides is located entirely at a shorter distance and the other of the two opposite, equally sized, largest sides is located entirely at a longer distance from a user when this user is located on the same surface as the housing while placing mail items into the housing.

[0288] The distance between the two equal, opposite largest sides of the housing for mail according to the invention, which is a rectangular box set up as described above, is in this case determined by the two shorter edges of each of the two equal, opposite, second largest sides and is defined here as the depth of the housing for mail according to the invention.

[0289] The side of the housing for mail items according to the invention, which is a rectangular box, which, after the above-described setup of the housing, is located entirely at the shortest distance of all housing sides, of which five are usually not entirely at the shortest distance, to a user who is on the same surface as the housing while placing a mail item into the housing, is referred to here as the front side (15) of the housing according to the invention.

[0290] The side of the housing for mail items according to the invention, which is a rectangular box, which, after the above-described installation of the housing, is located entirely at the longest distance of all the housing sides, of which five are usually not entirely at the longest distance, from a user who is on the same surface as the housing while placing a mail item into the housing, is referred to in this document as the side and more precisely as the back (12) of the housing according to the invention.

[0291] The distance between the two equal, opposite smallest sides of the housing for mail items according to the invention, which is a rectangular box set up as described above, is in this case determined by the longest edges of each of the two equal, opposite, largest sides and is referred to here as the height of the housing for mail items according to the invention.

[0292] The side of the housing for mail according to the invention, which is a rectangular box, which, after the above-described setup of the housing, is located entirely at the longest distance from the center of the earth of all housing sides (of which five are usually not entirely at the longest distance), is referred to here as the top side (11) of the housing according to the invention. It is usually one of the two opposite, equally sized, smallest sides of the housing.

[0293] The side of the housing for mail according to the invention, which is a rectangular box, which, after the above-described installation of the housing, is located completely at the shortest distance from the center of the earth of all housing sides, of which five are usually not completely at the shortest distance, is referred to here as the bottom side (13) of the housing according to the invention.

[0294] It is usually the other of the two opposite, equal-sized, smallest sides of the case.

[0295] The two equal-sized, opposite, second-largest sides of the housing for mail according to the invention, which is a rectangular box set up as described above, are referred to in this document as sides, more precisely as right (5) and left side (1) of the housing according to the invention from the perspective of a user located in front of the housing.

[0296] The distance between the two equal, opposite second largest sides of the housing for mail items according to the invention, which is a rectangular box set up as described above, is in this case determined by the two shorter edges of each of the two equal, opposite, largest sides of the housing and is referred to in this document as the width of the housing for mail items according to the invention.

[0297] The housing according to the invention is made of stainless steel for weather resistance, and its sides are 1 millimeter thick. It can accommodate cards, letters, packages, and parcels, which are used in the vast majority of daily use worldwide, up to a size of 350 millimeters by 500 millimeters by 300 millimeters and weighing up to 32 kilograms, through a rectangular entry opening in the horizontal center of one side of the housing, where the edge that has the shortest distance from the center of the earth among all edges of the entry opening and the opposite edge of the rectangle are both 370 millimeters long, thus the entry opening has a width of 370 millimeters, and the two other edges of the entry opening are 320 millimeters long, thus the entry opening has a height of 320 millimeters, and store them in its volume for mail. This volume is determined by the side of the housing,which is located at the shortest distance from the center of the earth from all sides of the housing, i.e. the bottom side (13) of the housing and the opposite side of the housing, which is located at the longest distance from the center of the earth from all sides of the housing, i.e. the top side (11) of the housing, are 1448 millimeters apart from each other, i.e. the housing has a height of 1450 millimeters, and the side of the housing which, when mail is being fed into the housing, is located at the shortest horizontal distance from all sides of the housing to the user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, i.e. the front side (15) of the housing and the side which, when mail is being fed into the housing, is located at the longest horizontal distance from all sides of the housing to the user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, i.e. the back side (12) of the housing,are spaced apart by 678 millimetres, meaning the housing has a depth of 680 millimetres, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is placing a mail item into the housing, i.e., is in front of the housing and with his body and face directed towards the housing, is to the right of the front side (15), i.e., the right side (14) of the housing, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is placing a mail item into the housing, i.e., is in front of the housing and with his body and face directed towards the housing, is to the left of the front side (15), i.e., the left side (10) of the housing, are spaced apart by 698 millimetres, meaning the housing has a width of 700 millimetres.

[0298] In this housing, the edge of the input opening which has the shortest distance to the centre of the earth, i.e. the lower edge of the input opening, is located at a distance of 1128 millimetres from the base (13) of the housing, so that the maximum fall height for mail items between the lower edge of the input opening and the inside of the base (13) is 1128 millimetres and the mail items can reach a maximum final speed of 4,709 metres per second or 16.95 kilometres per hour worldwide when falling before they touch the base (13) and need at least 0.479 seconds to fall.

[0299] Due to the kinetic energy when a mail item is inserted horizontally into this housing, due to air resistance and due to gravity, a mail item inserted into the housing moves inside the housing essentially with more or less complete rotations around its own horizontal and vertical axes in a half parabola towards the centre of the earth until it touches the inside of the bottom side (13) and remains there.Inside the above housing, a permanent emergency power supply known from the state of the art, which has a rechargeable battery, is particularly advantageously attached to the inside of the rear (12) of the housing directly next to the top side (11) and the right side of the housing, using screw connections known from the state of the art, which are sheet metal screws, and is permanently and detachably attached and functionally connected to the automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function with its digital cameras by means of cables.

[0300] Furthermore, inside the above housing, in an advantageous manner, with screw connections known from the prior art, which are sheet metal screws, a unit known from the prior art, permanently operating and powered by the emergency power supply and its power supply, for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision, of the permanently operating automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function, which is a permanently operating, digital video recorder with motion alarm function, is firmly and detachably attached inside on the back (12) of the housing directly next to the top side (11) and the left side of the housing and is functionally connected by cables to a permanently operating, digital video camera, which is mounted inside on the back (12) of the housing in the horizontal center and in the middle of the track,which corresponds to the distance between the lower edge of the input opening in the front side (15) and the bottom side (13), is fixedly and detachably attached and in pairs opposite it, to a permanently operating, digital video camera, which is fixedly and detachably attached inside on the front side (15) of the housing in the horizontal center and in the middle of the distance between the lower edge of the input opening in the front side (15) and the bottom side (13), and to a permanently operating, digital video camera, which is fixedly and detachably attached inside on the right side of the housing in the horizontal center and in the middle of the distance corresponding to the distance between the lower edge of the input opening in the front side (15) and the bottom side (13), and in pairs opposite it, to a permanently operating,A digital video camera is attached to the inside of the left side of the housing in the horizontal center and in the middle of the distance between the lower edge of the input opening in the front (15) and the bottom side (13), firmly and detachably mounted. Instead of being mounted in the orientation intended by the manufacturer with a large horizontal and a smaller vertical, the digital video cameras are rotated 90 degrees around their respective camera axes in such a way that the digital video cameras all record an area that is vertically higher and horizontally narrower than intended by their manufacturers, and with their lenses all directed toward the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed. The digital video cameras are also powered by the emergency power supply when the digital video recorder is not powering the video cameras.

[0301] Since the four digital video cameras are mounted on each side of the housing other than the top side (11) and the bottom side (13), and there is a mail delivery opening in the front side (15) of the housing which is 600 millimetres wide horizontally and 1100 millimetres high vertically, thus facilitating assembly and maintenance of the housing, one of the four video cameras is fixedly and detachably mounted on the inside of the shutter unit of this delivery opening and is directed with its lens towards the inner centre of the housing.

[0302] To the particular advantage, each of the four digital video cameras continuously records with its video recording the information and data that can be captured on the side of mail items falling into the housing, which is located in front of the camera lens in any orientation in the detection range of the digital video camera while the mail item is falling.

[0303] By means of these video recordings, the written text information about the sender and recipient on the side of the mail item, which are located in any orientation in front of the camera lens in the detection range of a digital video camera, are also advantageously recorded on video as the mail item falls into the housing.

[0304] Because this is advantageously done simultaneously with four cameras from four different, pairwise opposite directions and because the side of the mail item that is first fed into the housing is recorded by the digital video camera on the back (12) of the housing and because the mail item rotates after being fed in such a way that the side of the mail item that was the side with the greatest distance to the center of the earth during feeding, i.e. was facing upwards, is also recorded on video by the digital video camera on the back (12) of the housing after being fed in and the mail item continues to rotate about its horizontal and vertical axes as it falls after being fed into the housing, the probability that the written text information about the recipient and sender of each mail item falling into the housing is recorded on video,to the particular advantage of over 5 / 6, i.e. over 83 percent, and thus significantly higher than the maximum 34 percent probability according to the state of the art.

[0305] The more images per second of the mail item are captured by a digital video camera as it falls into the mail case, and the better the illumination and the higher the image resolution, the higher this probability increases, because more images of the mail item are then captured by the video cameras in more positions and in better quality, meaning that the written text information about the sender and recipient on the sides of the mail item is clearly legible on more images of the video recording.

[0306] The digital video cameras used are advantageously equipped with a 1 / 3 CMOS sensor with a minimum aperture of 0 to ensure the required capture quality.005 lux with, as standard, 1920 detection points per inch horizontally and 1080 detection points per inch vertically, i.e. approximately 2 million detection points for an area covered by a detection device of a detection unit of the automated video surveillance device, the control of which is capable of capturing 60 images per second, so that at the 1128 millimeter drop height for the first mail item in the housing, each of the four video cameras records a video with at least 28 individual images of the mail item falling in the housing during the fall, which is achieved through the advantageous use of a camera lens on each of the digital video cameras with a horizontal image recording angle of 170 degrees through a lens with an aperture of F1.8 and a focal length of f2.8 at a distance of 140 millimeters from the filmed object.

[0307] However, the digital video cameras used are not mounted on the inside of the housing sides as intended at the factory, with 1920 detection points per inch horizontally and 1080 detection points per inch vertically, but are particularly advantageously mounted rotated 90 degrees around the respective camera axis with 1920 detection points per inch vertically and 1080 detection points per inch horizontally, and are fixed and detachable again, so that more headroom is available for the motion alarm function, although the approximately 2 million detection points are retained.

[0308] Furthermore, for the particular advantage of the interior of the above housing, in which only little light is available, screw connections known from the state of the art, which are sheet metal screws, are known from the state of the art, permanently working

[0309] Additional equipment to improve the recording quality of the digital video cameras: additional lights, which are 4 infrared LEDs, permanently and detachably attached to the recording area of ​​each video camera.

[0310] As a further advantage, the above video recordings of the digital video cameras are advantageously processed by the permanently operating unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision, the permanently operating automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function, which is a permanently operating, state-of-the-art digital video recorder with motion alarm function, which can process the recording quality of the video cameras connected to it as recording units, i.e. 1920 image capture points per inch by 1080 image capture points per inch with 60 images per second per camera, has a storage volume of 6 terabytes for the video recordings so that it can permanently store and display the recorded video recordings,and which has a motion alarm function for each video camera connected to it in the form of automatic motion detection in video recordings, whenever the automatic evaluation detects a change in an individual frame compared to the previous individual frame in the video recordings, by automatically and permanently comparing each of the individual frames of a stored video recording with 60 individual frames per second and with a resolution of 1920 pixels per inch by 1080 pixels per inch with the respective previous individual frame in the video recording, and in the event that it detects a change in an image compared to the respective previous image in the video recording and thus detects a movement,a selectably long partial video recording with this movement from the previously saved video recording of 1 second before the start of the first movement and 1 second after the end of the last movement is automatically saved together with the video recording of the triggering movement, and automatically reported to a mobile phone number via the Internet functionally connected to the digital video recorder via a Wi-Fi radio connection, as previously specified by the authorized owner of the improved housing for mail items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, to an email address as an email attachment and to an IP address of an FTP server, and made available in the memory of the digital video recorder.

[0311] Since the authorized owner of the improved housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing has entered his own mobile phone number and his own email address when setting up this system, the authorized owner receives an MMS message on his mobile phone and, in the case of mobile phones according to the state of the art, also the email with the partial video, which he can immediately view on his mobile phone.

[0312] With the advantageous technical embodiment described above, the authorized owner of a housing for mail items improved according to the invention with an automated video monitoring device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing receives, within a few minutes after each mail item has been placed in his housing for mail items, with significantly increased reliability, the knowledge of who is indicated as the recipient and sender in the written text information on the outside of or on the mail item.

[0313] As a further particular advantage, inside the above housing, with screw connections known from the state of the art, which are sheet metal screws, on each side of the housing that is not the top side (11) and not the bottom side (13), a mechanical braking device for mail items falling into the housing is fixedly and releasably attached at a shorter distance from the center of the earth than the digital video cameras and in the horizontal side center. These braking devices consist of 300 millimeter long bristles made of plastic fibers directed towards the center of the housing, which in their initial position protrude into the housing almost horizontally, but sloping towards the center of the housing for mail items, but then, when a mail item falls onto them, give way downwards in a resilient manner and bend downwards towards the center with a resilient tension and after the mail item has reached the bottom of the housing or has been removed,automatically spring back into their almost horizontal initial position, sloping towards the middle.

[0314] In a further advantageous manner, a protective device is fixedly and detachably attached inside the above housing with screw connections known from the prior art, which are sheet metal screws, on each side of the housing that is not the top side (11) and not the bottom side (13) around the digital video cameras, on all sides of the cameras that are not the sides with the shortest distance to the center of the earth from all camera sides, which ensures that the digital video cameras cannot be damaged by mail falling down inside the housing and which is a sheet metal in the form of a roof sloping towards the center of the housing, which can bear a weight of 32 kilograms and which allows mail to slide over the roof towards the center of the housing, and the protective device protrudes only one millimeter further into the housing than the camera lens and has an opening in the sheet metal that supports the roof,which is slightly larger than a circle around the lens of the digital video cameras protected in this way and around the additional infrared lights protected in this way.

[0315] Examples of implementation

[0316] All of the following exemplary embodiments show, in simplified form, further technical improvements and configurations of the housing according to the invention for mail items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, without limiting the invention thereto, since the listing of all possible embodiments of these exemplary embodiments would be unacceptably extensive.

[0317] This example also uses a rectangular box, as already described in the first embodiment. In this further embodiment, while maintaining the same external housing size, the possibilities for handling multiple types of mail are further improved, as follows.

[0318] In a further advantageous embodiment of the housing according to the invention for mail items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, in one of many possible embodiments, it is technically advantageously designed such that it is a rectangular box whose sides are 1 millimeter thick and which can accommodate cards, letters, packages and parcels that are used in the vast majority of daily use worldwide, up to a format of 400 millimeters by 1000 millimeters by 390 millimeters with a weight of up to 32 kilograms through a rectangular input opening in the horizontal center of the side of the housing, which of all the housing sides has the longest distance to the center of the earth and which is a rectangle with a side length of 420 millimeters by 410 millimeters, in which the side of the housing,which is located at the shortest distance from the center of the earth from all sides of the housing, i.e. the bottom side (13) of the housing and the opposite side of the housing, which is located at the longest distance from the center of the earth from all sides of the housing, i.e. the top side (11) of the housing, are 1448 millimeters apart from each other, i.e. the housing has a height of 1450 millimeters, and the side of the housing which, when mail is being fed into the housing, is located at the shortest horizontal distance from all sides of the housing to the user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, i.e. the front side (15) of the housing and the side which, when mail is being fed into the housing, is located at the longest horizontal distance from all sides of the housing to the user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, i.e. the back side (12) of the housing,are spaced apart by 678 millimetres, meaning the housing has a depth of 680 millimetres, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is placing a mail item into the housing, i.e., is in front of the housing and with his body and face directed towards the housing, is to the right of the front side (15), i.e., the right side (14) of the housing, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is placing a mail item into the housing, i.e., is in front of the housing and with his body and face directed towards the housing, is to the left of the front side (15), i.e., the left side (10) of the housing, are spaced apart by 698 millimetres, meaning the housing has a width of 700 millimetres.

[0319] The above dimensions are for illustrative purposes only and do not limit the invention. They illustrate how a housing according to the invention functions and which mail items it can accommodate. In particular, all housings for mail items known from the prior art, in all known heights, in all known widths, in all known depths, and with all known sizes of input openings, can be used for the housing for mail items according to the invention and can be used individually or in combination with other similar housings for mail items to create a housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing.

[0320] In a further advantageous embodiment, the invention provides that, in addition to the four mounted digital video cameras, a permanently operating digital video camera is mounted inside on the side of the housing which has the longest distance from the center of the earth of all sides of the housing, and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

[0321] The housing according to the invention advantageously provides that a digital video camera is fixedly and detachably attached to the inside of the shutter unit for the input opening and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

[0322] In addition, the invention provides for the particular advantage that the four digital video cameras are not fixedly and detachably mounted in the horizontal centers of the four different sides of the housing, which are not the top side (11) and not the bottom side (13), but that they are mounted in the vertical center, i.e. in the middle of the housing height, and horizontally not in the middle but on an edge of each side, so to speak in the corner between two sides that are at a 90 degree angle to each other, and all of them are directed with their lenses towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

[0323] And it is advantageously provided by the invention that the four digital video cameras, which are fixedly and detachably mounted in the horizontal centers of the four different sides of the housing, which are not the top side (11) and not the bottom side (13), are mounted in the vertical center, i.e. in the middle of the housing height, and additionally in the horizontal not in the center, but on an edge of each side, in each corner between two sides which are at a 90 degree angle to each other, four further video cameras are mounted and all eight video cameras are directed with their lenses towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.As a further particular advantage, the invention provides that the four digital video cameras mounted opposite one another in pairs are not mounted on the four opposite sides of the housing, but rather on the inside of the side of the housing which, of all sides of the housing except for the shutter unit, has the longest distance from the center of the earth, on the four straight edges thereof, and their lenses are all directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

[0324] For further improvement, in one embodiment, the entire permanently operating, automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function advantageously monitors the monitored area inside the housing with digital video cameras that monitor 60 captures per second at a resolution of 2560 capture points per inch in height and 1440 capture points per inch in width.

[0325] As a further particular advantage of the invention, the four digital video cameras mounted opposite one another in pairs are not mounted on the four opposite sides of the housing, but rather on the inside of the side of the housing which, of all sides of the housing except for the shutter unit, has the longest distance from the center of the earth, in its four corners, and their lenses are all directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

[0326] In a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding of the automated video surveillance device is integrated into the housing of the recording unit, i.e. the digital video camera and the digital video recorder in one.

[0327] And as a particular advantage, in a housing for mail items according to the invention with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, all video cameras are mounted in the housing for mail items with the same mounting device, with plug connections, with a bayonet lock or by screws or in another advantageous manner, fixedly and detachably again.

[0328] In a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision is not mounted in the housing for postal items with an automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function for mail items falling inside this housing, but is located on the outside of the housing but in a secured environment and the digital video cameras in the housing are not functionally connected via cables, but via a WIFI radio connection to the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision.

[0329] In a further advantageous embodiment, the fixed but detachable fastening means for connecting the parts of the invention in the housing is an adhesive which can be released again by a shearing movement.

[0330] For the mounting device, the invention advantageously provides for attachment inside the housing with rivets and then the individual video cameras and lights are fixedly and detachably attached in the mounting device with another fastening means, such as screws.

[0331] And advantageously, the invention provides that one side of the housing for mail items is designed almost entirely as a dispensing opening with a closure unit.

[0332] In a further advantageous technical embodiment, the mounting device is simultaneously a part of the protective device and this combination is then firmly attached to the housing by rivets and then the individual video cameras and lights are firmly and detachably attached to the combination of mounting device and protective device using screws as fastening means.

[0333] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that embodiments of the housing for mail items include a separately mounted component of an automated video surveillance device and a protective device and a braking device so as to be mounted inside the closure unit for the output opening in the front side (15) of the housing for mail items.

[0334] And the invention particularly advantageously provides that, in addition to the four attached digital video cameras, a fifth, permanently operating, digital video camera is permanently and detachably mounted on the inside of the housing, on the side of the housing, which has the longest distance from the center of the earth of all sides of the housing. Its lens is directed toward the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed. This fifth camera advantageously increases the probability that the written text information about the recipient and sender of each mail item falling into the housing is recorded on video to over 6 / 6, or 100 percent, and thus significantly higher than the maximum 34 percent probability according to the prior art.

[0335] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that, in addition to the four digital video cameras, a fifth digital video camera is fixedly and detachably attached to the inside of the closure unit for the input opening and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

[0336] The invention particularly advantageously provides that the complete automated video surveillance device is not mounted in the housing at the respective described positions in the housing for postal items, but that instead a component of the automated video surveillance device, namely the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision, is housed separately from the housing for postal items in a location that is better protected against damage and removal than the mostly publicly accessible housing for postal items and is functionally connected to the video cameras in the housing with a WIFI radio connection, wherein an opening is advantageously provided in the housing for postal items according to the invention for the required antennas and cables.

[0337] And as a particular advantage, the invention provides that the protective device for protection against damage caused by falling mail has an opening to ensure the function of the automated monitoring device or its parts protected by it.

[0338] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that the housing for mail items is supplied with the power it requires by means of a power supply unit or a transformer.

[0339] As a further advantage, a further technical embodiment of the housing for postal items according to the invention provides that the housing for postal items is supplied with the power it requires by means of an accumulator or a battery, wherein the accumulator can also be charged via a solar cell.

[0340] Advantageously, the housing for postal items according to the invention is supplied with the power it requires by means of an emergency power supply and an accumulator or by means of an emergency power supply and a battery.

[0341] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for postal items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that the automated video surveillance devices installed in a housing for postal items according to the invention and the components of automated video surveillance devices installed in a housing for postal items are provided with passive cooling or with active cooling.

[0342] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for postal items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that the automated monitoring devices installed in a housing for postal items according to the invention and the components of automated video monitoring devices installed in a housing for postal items are provided with a passive heater or with an active heater.

[0343] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention, without limiting the invention thereto, provides for the particular advantage that, in addition to one of the above technical embodiments of the housing, at least one mechanical braking device for mail items falling into the housing is mounted in the housing for mail items, at least below the automated monitoring devices or their detection units, which can be fixedly and detachably mounted, for example, without limiting the invention thereto, from bristles, strips or plates at least thirty centimeters long, directed towards the center of the housing, which consist of plastic fibers or natural fibers, which in their initial position protrude into the housing almost horizontally, but sloping towards the center of the housing for mail items, but then, when a mail item falls onto them, downwards,yield springily and bend downwards towards the middle with a springy tension and after the mail item has reached the bottom of the housing or has been removed, automatically spring back into its almost horizontal initial position, sloping towards the middle.

[0344] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides that a digital video camera is fixedly and detachably attached to the inside of the closure unit for the output opening.

[0345] And in a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides that the closure unit of the output opening of the housing for mail items also includes the input opening with its closure unit, so that the maintenance of a housing according to the invention is additionally advantageously facilitated.

[0346] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides that the closure unit of the output opening of the housing for mail items also includes the input opening with its closure unit.

[0347] In addition, in a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, it is particularly advantageous that the protective device for parts of the automated video surveillance device is designed with a damping on its upper, roof-shaped part of the protective device in order to slow down the falling speed of falling mail items without damaging the mail item.

[0348] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for postal items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that the mounting device for the automated video surveillance device or for parts of the automated video surveillance device also offers the described functionalities of the protective device and the braking device, in that the described embodiments of the protective device and the braking device are not attached directly to the housing for postal items, but are attached to the mounting device and then the mounting device is attached to the housing for postal items.

[0349] In an additional technical embodiment of the housing for postal items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that the mounting device for the digital video cameras is also the protective device and the braking device.

[0350] The preferred fastening means of the invention, the fixed and detachable connections of the parts of the combination of housing for mail items and automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function and additional equipment are carried out by screws.

[0351] In addition, the housing according to the invention provides, in a further technical embodiment, for the particular advantage that several protective devices for digital video cameras in a housing for mail items together form a funnel into which the mail items fall down.

[0352] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that several braking devices for mail items in a housing for mail items together form a funnel into which the mail items fall down.

[0353] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that several braking devices for mail items in a housing for mail items together form a channel in which the mail items fall down.

[0354] And in a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that several protective devices for digital video cameras in a housing for mail items together form a channel into which the mail items fall down.

[0355] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that several braking devices for mail items and several protective devices for digital video cameras in a housing for mail items together form a channel into which the mail items fall down.

[0356] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that one side of the housing for mail items is designed almost entirely as a dispensing opening with a locking unit, as a large door, so that the automated video surveillance devices or their components mounted in the housing are more easily accessible during maintenance.

[0357] In a further technical embodiment of the housing for mail items according to the invention, the invention provides for the particular advantage that additional detection units of other types of video surveillance devices, such as, for example, RFID scanners, without limiting the invention thereto, are mounted inside the housing for mail items and are functionally connected to further units for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision.

[0358] The above technical design of a housing for postal items, which has been improved for technical and economic reasons, achieves the particular advantage that, in a housing for postal items according to the invention, a device or structure which ensures a stable, i.e., immobile, position of the postal item during detection is no longer necessary, in a housing for postal items according to the invention, all cards, letters, packages and parcels which can be inserted into the input opening of a housing for postal items are detected, reported and forwarded by the data and information detection of the video surveillance device, without damaging the units required for this purpose inside the housing,In a housing for mail items according to the invention, the sender or deliverer of a mail item can, after opening the closure unit of the input opening, quickly insert several mail items one after the other into the input opening of such a housing for mail items; In a housing for mail items according to the invention, the detection devices of the detection units of a housing for mail items are not covered by other components of such a housing for mail items and thus their function is not impaired; In a housing for mail items according to the invention, the operation of such a housing for mail items is significantly simplified; In a housing for mail items according to the invention, each mail item that is inserted into such a housing for mail items is reliably detected and reported, and at least the detectable information on one side of each mail item is made available at a remote location;In a housing for mail items according to the invention, the possibility of damage to the units and devices mounted in such a housing during operation is reduced; In a housing for mail items according to the invention, mail items falling through in such a housing, the information that can be recorded on at least one side of the mail item is recorded and reported, and at least the recordable information on one side of the mail item falling through is made available at a remote location; In a housing for mail items according to the invention, even mail items with a high weight can be placed into such a housing for mail items without damaging the units mounted in such a housing for mail items, and at least the recordable information and data that can be recorded on at least one side of the mail items,are recorded and reported and at least the information on one side of the mail item is made remotely available, in a housing for mail items according to the invention the maintenance possibility of such a housing for mail items is improved, in a housing for mail items according to the invention the costs for the manufacture and assembly of such a housing for mail items are reduced and, in addition, it is also monitored whether the mail items placed in the housing are damaged or removed by third parties and in such a case the police can be informed with the reports of the video surveillance device as evidence,

[0359] The installation of four additional digital video cameras, each positioned opposite each other in pairs on different sides and, for example, rotated by 45 degrees in the horizontal plane to the already installed video cameras inside the corners of the housing, further increases this probability.

[0360] List of drawings and reference symbols:

[0361] Schematic drawings of housings for mail items are shown, without limiting the invention to the content of the drawings:

[0362] Figure 1 :

[0363] 1 Left side of a housing for mail items according to the state of the art

[0364] 2 Top side of a housing for mail items according to the state of the art

[0365] 3 Back of a housing for postal items according to the state of the art

[0366] 4 Bottom side of a housing for postal items according to the state of the art

[0367] 5 Right side of a housing for mail items according to the state of the art

[0368] 6 Front of a housing for mail items according to the state of the art

[0369] 7 Sealing unit in front of the input opening for mail items according to the state of the art

[0370] 8 Sealing unit in front of the output opening for mail items according to the state of the

[0371] Technology

[0372] 9 Opening for cables or antennas according to the state of the art

[0373] Figure 2:

[0374] 10 Left side of a housing according to the invention for mail items, in which the left

[0375] side wall was removed

[0376] 11 Top side of a housing for mail items according to the invention, in which the top side has been removed

[0377] 12 Rear side of a housing for mail items according to the invention, in which the

[0378] back was removed

[0379] 13 Bottom side of a housing according to the invention for mail items, in which the

[0380] bottom side was removed

[0381] 14 Right side of a housing for mail items according to the invention, with the right side removed

[0382] 15 Front of a housing for mail items according to the invention, in which the

[0383] front was removed

Claims

Claims 1. A housing for mail items with a monitoring device, characterized in that a housing for mail items which has an input opening in one side which is not the side which, of all sides of the housing, has the longest distance from the center of the Earth and which is also not the side opposite this side, and whose input opening in the form of a horizontally elongated rectangle, in conjunction with the drop height for the mail items in the housing inside behind the input opening, causes mail items inserted into the housing, from the point at which more than half of their weight has been inserted into the housing, to move partially or repeatedly in a half-parabola towards the center of the Earth due to the kinetic energy during insertion, gravity, and air resistance around one of their axes, thus falling down before remaining in the permanently attached housing for mail items,with a permanently operating, automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function, which is mounted inside the housing for postal items with four permanently operating, digital video cameras, each of which is mounted inside on four different, pairwise opposite sides of the housing, none of which is the side that has the shortest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the housing and which is not a side that is opposite to it, and whose lenses are all directed towards the inner center of the housing for postal items when the housing for postal items is closed, continuously recording video images and thus also the written text information on the side of a postal item that is first inserted into the housing is recorded by the digital video camera that is mounted on the side of the housing,which is opposite the input opening and also the written text information on all other sides of each postal item rotating in the housing towards the centre of the earth, i.e. falling down, on which video recordings are recorded, and with a permanently operating unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding of the video recordings, makes part of these video recordings available at a location independent of the location of this housing for postal items, and is permanently and detachably combined with permanently operating additional equipment for improving the recording quality inside the housing for postal items.

2. Housing for mail items with a monitoring device, according to claim 1, characterized in that a housing for mail items, which has an input opening in the side which, of all sides of the housing except the closure unit, has the longest distance from the center of the earth, and whose input opening is attached with a closure unit, which is attached with a hinge-like fastening to the side which, of all housing sides, has the longest distance from a user during input into the housing, so that after opening the closure unit and the start of the input of mail items, these mail items move in a half parabola towards the center of the earth due to the kinetic energy during input, gravity, air resistance and due to the user position during input, partially or repeatedly rotating around one of their axes, i.e. fall down,before they remain in the permanently attached postal enclosure, with a permanently operating, automated video surveillance device with a motion alarm function, which is mounted inside the postal enclosure with four permanently operating, digital video cameras, each of which is mounted internally on four different, opposite sides of the enclosure, none of which is the side that has the shortest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the enclosure, and none of which is the side that is opposite to it, and whose lenses, when the postal enclosure is closed, are all directed towards the inner center of the postal enclosure, continuously recording video images, and thus the written text information on the side of a postal item first inserted into the enclosure is also recorded by the digital video camera that is mounted on the side of the enclosure,which has the longest distance to a user of the housing during input and also the written text information on all other sides of each postal item rotating in the housing towards the centre of the earth, i.e. falling down, on which video recordings are recorded and with a permanently operating unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding of the video recordings, makes part of these video recordings available at a location that is independent of the location of this housing for postal items and is permanently and detachably combined with permanently operating additional equipment to improve the recording quality inside the housing for postal items, 3. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that in addition to the four attached digital video cameras, a fifth, permanently operating, digital video camera, which has the longest distance from the center of the earth of all sides of the housing, is fixedly and detachably attached and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

4. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a digital video camera is fixedly and detachably attached to the inside of the closure unit for the input opening and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

5. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a digital video camera is fixedly and detachably attached to the inside of the closure unit for the removal opening and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

6. Housing for postal items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the four digital video cameras mounted in pairs opposite each other are not mounted on the four different, pairwise opposite sides of the housing, none of which is the side that has the shortest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the housing and none of which is the side that is opposite this, but inside on the side of the housing that has the longest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the housing except the shutter unit, on whose four straight edges they are mounted and their lenses are all directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

7. Housing for postal items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the four digital video cameras mounted in pairs opposite each other are not mounted on the four pairs of opposite sides of the housing, none of which is the side that has the shortest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the housing and none of which is the side that is opposite this, but inside on the side of the housing that has the longest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the housing except the shutter unit, in whose four corners are mounted and their lenses are all directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

8. Housing for postal items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the four digital video cameras are not fixedly and detachably mounted in the horizontal centers of the four different, opposite sides of the housing, which are not the top side and not the bottom side, but that they are mounted in the vertical center, i.e. in the middle of the housing height, and in the horizontal direction not in the middle but on an edge of each side, in the corner between two sides that are at a 90 degree angle to each other, and all of them are directed with their lenses towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

9. Housing for postal items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the four digital video cameras are mounted in the horizontal centers of the four different, opposite sides of the housing, which are not the top side and not the bottom side and in the vertical center, i.e. in the middle of the housing height, and in addition, four further digital video cameras are mounted horizontally not in the middle, but on an edge of each side, in the corner between two sides which are at a 90 degree angle to each other, and all eight digital video cameras are directed with their lenses towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

10. Housing for postal items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision is not installed in the housing for postal items, but is located outside the housing and the digital video cameras in the housing are not cables but are functionally connected to the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision via a WIFI radio connection.

11. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding, can process the recording quality of the video cameras functionally connected to it and, in the event of a movement in a video recording, sends a partial video recording of the movement to an IP address of Internet servers, to at least one mobile phone number and to at least one email address, 12. Housing for postal items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the permanently operating unit for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding of the video recordings is a digital video recorder with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding of the video recordings.

13. Housing for mail items with a monitoring device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the permanently operating digital video recorder is set up in such a way that during each movement of a mail item inside the housing, i.e. during insertion with a mail item falling into the housing, a video of this movement is recorded by each video camera and these video recordings of the falling mail item are uploaded via the Internet for the owner of the housing and a person designated by him to view and further process five minutes after the movement at a location that is independent of the location of this housing and a predefined part of two seconds of these video recordings with the movement are forwarded directly to the owner of the housing and to a person designated by him by email to his and their mobile phone or WiFi tablet.

14. A housing for mail items with a monitoring device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at the locations in the housing for mail items where digital video cameras are to be mounted according to the invention, not only digital video cameras, but digital video cameras, each of which is permanently combined with only one unit functionally connected to this digital video camera for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, provision and forwarding of the video recordings to a single automated video monitoring device with a motion alarm function, are permanently and detachably mounted, and the lenses of all individual automated video monitoring devices with a motion alarm function are all directed towards the inner center of the housing for mail items when the housing for mail items is closed, 15. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the digital video cameras are mounted rotated by 90 degrees around the horizontal axis directed towards the center of the housing.

16. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the permanently operating, automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function monitors the monitored area inside the housing with digital video cameras which record 60 images per second at a resolution of 1920 detection points per inch in height and 1080 detection points per inch in width.

17. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the permanently operating, automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function monitors the monitored area inside the housing with digital video cameras which record 60 images per second at a resolution of 2560 detection points per inch in height and 1440 detection points per inch in width.

18. A mail enclosure with monitoring device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that parts of the automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function for mail falling into the enclosure are located outside the mail enclosure, but are functionally connected to parts of the automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function inside the enclosure.

19. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that digital video cameras mounted in the housing for mail items are mounted vertically in the middle of the distance of the drop height between the lower edge of the input opening and the side of the housing which is completely at the shortest distance to the center of the earth of all sides of the housing and in the horizontal direction in the middle of this side, and are directed with their detection device towards the center of the housing.

20. Housing for mail items with monitoring device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing for mail items with infrared lighting and with automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function is supplied with the power required by it by a power supply unit.

21. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing for mail items with infrared lighting and with automated Video surveillance device with motion alarm function is supplied with the power it requires by an accumulator, which is charged via solar cells.

22. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing for mail items with infrared lighting and with automated Video surveillance device with motion alarm function with a Emergency power supply and an accumulator with the power it requires.

23. Housing for mail items with monitoring device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing for mail items with infrared lighting and with automated Video surveillance device with motion alarm function with a Emergency power supply and a battery provide the power it needs.

24. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the digital video cameras require a low minimum light intensity for video recording.

25. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing for mail items is combined with a permanently operating, automated video monitoring device with a motion alarm function and with an additional, permanently operating infrared lighting to improve the detection quality of the detection units of the automated monitoring device.

26. Housing for mail items with monitoring device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the digital video cameras and digital video recorders built into the housing for mail items with infrared lighting and with automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function are equipped with active cooling.

27. Housing for mail items with monitoring device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing for mail items with infrared lighting and with automated video surveillance device with motion alarm function, built-in digital video cameras and digital video recorders with active heating.

28. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a protective device for protecting against damage by falling mail items is mounted inside the housing for each automated video monitoring device mounted in the housing and for each component of an automated video monitoring device mounted therein.

29. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the protective device for protection against damage caused by falling mail items has a load-bearing capacity of 32 kilograms and is in the form of a roof sloping towards the centre of the housing, over which the mail items slide towards the centre of the housing.

30. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the protective device for protection against damage caused by falling mail items has at least one opening to ensure the function of the automated monitoring device or its parts protected by it.

31. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a mechanical braking device for mail items falling into the housing is mounted inside the housing.

32. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the mechanical braking device for mail items falling into the housing consists of thirty centimetres long bristles directed towards the centre of the housing, which are arranged almost horizontally but sloping towards the centre of the housing.

33. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the interior of the housing a component of an automated Video surveillance device is attached with a mounting device.

34. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the interior of the housing a component of an automated video monitoring device is fixedly and detachably attached to a protective device which is fixedly attached to the housing with rivets by means of a mechanical braking device for falling mail items and by means of a mounting device.

35. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one automated video monitoring device, with a protective device, with a braking device for falling mail items and with a mounting device is fixedly and detachably mounted in the interior of the housing.

36. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the closure unit of the removal opening of the housing for mail items also includes the input opening with its closure unit.

37. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one side of the housing for mail items is almost completely designed as a removal opening with a closure unit.

38. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that four protective devices for digital video cameras in the housing for mail items together form a funnel into which the mail items fall down.

39. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that four braking devices for mail items in the housing for mail items together form a funnel into which the mail items fall down.

40. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that four braking devices for mail items in a housing for mail items together form a channel into which the mail items fall down.

41. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that four protective devices for digital cameras in a housing for mail items together form a channel into which the mail items fall down.

42. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that four braking devices for mail items and four protective devices for digital monitoring devices together form a channel in a housing for mail items, into which the mail items fall down.

43. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that additional detection units of other types of monitoring devices are mounted inside the housing for mail items and are functionally connected to further units for data processing with storage, display, evaluation, reporting, forwarding and provision.

44. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in addition to the four already mounted digital video cameras, a permanently operating digital video camera is mounted inside the closure unit of the input opening and its lens is directed towards the inner center of the housing when the housing is closed.

45. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the fixed but detachable connections of the parts of the combination of housing for mail items and automated video monitoring device with motion alarm function and additional equipment are carried out by screws.

46. ​​Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is a rectangular box fixed on a surface or fixed on a wall with various units and design elements and is made of a stainless steel for weather resistance and whose sides are 1 millimeter thick and it can Cards, letters, packages and parcels which are used in the vast majority of daily use worldwide, up to a format of 350 millimetres by 500 millimetres by 300 millimetres and weighing up to 32 kilograms through a rectangular input opening in the horizontal centre of one side of the casing, where the edge which has the shortest distance of all edges of the input opening to the centre of the earth and the opposite edge of the rectangle are both 370 millimetres long, so the input opening has a width of 370 millimeters, and the two other edges of the input opening are 320 millimeters long, so the input opening has a height of 320 millimeters, and store it in its volume for mail. This volume is determined by the side of the housing which is completely at the shortest distance from the center of the earth of all housing sides, i.e. the bottom side of the housing and the opposite side of the housing which is completely at the longest distance from the center of the earth of all housing sides, i.e. the top side of the housing, have a distance of 1448 millimeters from each other, so the housing has a height of 1450 millimeters and the side of the housing which, when mail is being fed into the housing, is completely at the shortest horizontal distance from the user of the housing who is putting a mail item into the housing, i.e. the front of the housing and the side,which, when inserting mail into the housing, are located at the longest horizontal distance from the user of the housing who is inserting a mail item into the housing, i.e. the rear of the housing, at a distance of 678 millimeters from each other, i.e. the housing has a depth of 680 millimeters, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is inserting a mail item into the housing, is located in front of the housing and with his body and face directed towards the housing, is to the right of the front, i.e. the right side of the housing, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is inserting a mail item into the housing, is located in front of the housing and with his body and face directed towards the housing, is to the left of the front, i.e. the left side of the housing,are 698 millimeters apart, meaning the housing has a width of 700 millimeters.

47. Housing for mail items with monitoring device, according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is a rectangular box, the sides of which are made of 1 millimeter thick aluminum sheet and which can contain cards, letters, packages and parcels, which are used in the vast majority of daily use worldwide, up to a format of 400 millimeters by 1000 millimeters by 390 millimeters with a weight of up to 32 kilograms through a rectangular input opening in the horizontal center of the side of the housing, which of all housing sides has the longest distance to the center of the earth, and which is a rectangle with sides measuring 420 millimeters by 410 millimeters, in which the side of the housing which of all housing sides is at the shortest distance to the center of the earth, i.e. the bottom side of the housing and the opposite side of the housing, which of all housing sides is at the longest distance to the center of the earth, i.e. the top side of the housing, are at a distance of 1448 millimeters from each other, i.e. the housing has a height of 1450 millimeters and the side of the housing which, when inserting mail into the housing, is at the shortest horizontal distance of all housing sides from the user of the housing who is inserting a mail item into the housing,i.e., the front of the housing and the side which, when mail is being fed into the housing, is located at the longest horizontal distance from the user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, i.e., the rear of the housing, are 678 millimeters apart, i.e., the housing has a depth of 680 millimeters, and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, is located in front of the housing with their body and face directed towards the housing, is to the right of the front, i.e., the right side of the housing and the side of the housing which, from the perspective of a user of the housing who is feeding a mail item into the housing, is located in front of the housing with their body and face directed towards the housing, is to the left of the front,i.e. the left side of the case, are 698 millimeters apart, so the case has a width of 700 millimeters.

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