128 results about "Post office" patented technology

A pharmacy post office receives prescriptions and produces through an automated pill dispensing and packaging system, pharmacy letters that are sorted and delivered as first class or priority mail pieces. The system packages the prescription medication in carriers that are sized to fit into mail sorting machines that sort the first class or priority mail pieces by postal delivery routes. The pharmacy letters include patient mailing address information such that the pharmacy letters are then fed to the mail sorting machines and sorted along with the first class or priority mail pieces for delivery by the postal delivery persons along their customary routes. The system includes a robotic subsystem that dispenses the medication from pill canisters supplied by the drug companies and provides the pills to an automated packaging system. The packaging system feeds the pills into compartments of a carrier base or blister pack and prints on the carrier or applies as labels thereto drug identification information, mailing address information and tracking information, such as a machine readable code. The packaging system then assembles and seals the carrier, such that mailing address information is available for reading by mail sorting machines. The assembled pharmacy letters are then supplied to the mail sorting machines and included in the first class or priority delivery operations of the post office. A track and trace system may be included to provide a delivery schedule to the patient and/or prescribing doctor. The track and trace system is informed when the packaging system provides a pharmacy letter to the mail sorting machines, and the system determines if the pharmacy letter will be included in the same day postal delivery operations or in the next day operations. When a pharmacy letter is delivered by the postal delivery person, he or she scans the tracking code and transmits information back to the system, which then updates its delivery schedule to show the completed delivery.

A postal customer obtains (directly or indirectly) from a post office one or more labels, each having a unique identifier. At the time of obtaining the labels or later, the customer associates a payment account such as a credit card account or bank account with the label identifier in a database and authorizes postage charges to the payment account. At a later time, a label is addressed and other delivery information is supplied, and then affixed to a package for delivery. The package is delivered to and processed at a post office, where the label is read and the appropriate postage is determined by the post office without interaction with the customer. By accessing the database, the payment account associated with the unique identifier is determined and billed for such postage by the post office.

A communication device allows a user to get access from the outside via an external public line to obtain e-mail data stored in a device connected to an internal system via a computer network such as a LAN without causing a reduction in security. More specifically, the communication device is connected to a LAN via a LAN I/F and also connected to the public line via a line I/F. If the communication device receives a remote operation command via the public line, a CPU of the communication device gets access to a post office of an e-mail server so as to get e-mail data in accordance with the remote operation command. The obtained e-mail data is converted to facsimile image data and transmitted by means of facsimile to a specified destination.

A system and method for printing a postage meter stamp, including a desired postage amount and a personalized postage indicia, onto a piece of mail. A user takes a postal storage device to the Post Office in order to obtain a replenishment of the amount of postage stored within the postage storage device. A desired amount of postage is entered into the storage device by a postal employee through a processor-based system. The user is then able to access this stored postage at the user's location through a complementary processor-based system. The user is also able to create or to select one of a variety of graphical configurations of postage indicia to be imprinted as the postage meter stamp on a piece of mail.

A route guiding system and method for use with a navigation device that provides route guidance utilizing portions of speech uttered by a user to further guide the user to a location. The route guiding system includes a route guide request presence or absence determining unit and an institution extracting unit. The route guide request presence or absence determining unit determines whether a pre-registered a route guide request, such as "I see," is included in a user utterance. The institution extracting unit extracts a word related to an institution such as, "post office," from the user utterance. For example, if the user states, "I see a post office." The route guide request presence or absence determining unit identifies "I see" and the institution extracting unit identifies "post office." Further, the route guiding system may include a institution retrieving unit that retrieves institutions located near the position of a vehicle equipped with the navigation system of the invention, an institution candidate selecting unit that selects institutions located along a route guide from among the retrieved institutions, a user-uttered institution specifying unit that specifies an institution uttered by the user from among the selected institutions, and a route guide output unit that makes a guide according to the number of intersections located in the section from the specified institution up to a place to be guided.

We show how to use a browser plug-in and a central Registrar server, to let users send registered or validated electronic messages in a lightweight manner, without using computationally expensive Public Key Infrastructure methods. To users, it is analogous to post office certified or registered mail. Our method can be done if the users, as senders and recipients, are at major ISPs, who have web pages for writing and reading messages, whose structure is known or can be found by the plug-in. Our method does not need the involvement of the ISPs, though that would facilitate some operations.

An add value terminal provides an automatic fare collection environment with a compact, easy to use, and easy to install device that re-values and issues transit fare smart cards exclusively utilizing credit and debit functions. The add value terminal alleviates long lines often associated with automatic vending machines that allow bill and coin transactions. The add value terminal also can be configured to sell tickets in out-of-station environments including malls, grocery stores, post offices, and airports.

A software tool referred to as a “mailman” monitors certain folders on a network for new scanned documents. A user places a stamp on a document, then uses a digital copier to store the scanned document to one of the monitored folders on the network. When the mailman sees a new scanned document in one of the folders it is monitoring, the mailman retrieves the document, processes the document to determine the number on the stamp, queries a Post Office application for document processing instructions corresponding to the stamp number, performs any required processing of the document, then delivers the processed document to the Post Office. When the Post Office receives the processed document, the processed document is stored in a document repository in the Post Office, and is processed by the Post Office according to document processing instructions corresponding to the stamp number.

The application provides a credit card granting system and a credit card granting method. The credit card granting system and the credit card granting method use the internet to transmit a card applying request of a user, reduce user data leakage risk possibly brought by using a paper application form, automatically examine and verify card application information of the user, and send card fabrication information to a self-service terminal by using the internet after the application information passes an audit, and then the self-service terminal uses the card fabrication information to control a card fabrication machine to fabricate a card, and therefore the user can directly obtain the credit card after being completely fabricated on the site of the self-service terminal, and credit card granting efficiency is greatly improved. Additionally, the credit card granting system and the credit card granting method solve the problems that when an existing granting mode is used, the credit card after being completely fabricated is mailed through a post office, sending speed is low and the credit card is possibly lost, and can prevent losing risk of the credit card.

A method for the prepayment by a shipper of customs duties and fees in a first country on shipments addressed for delivery in a second country that will be charged to the shippers' postage meter. For instance, if a package is mailed in the United Kingdom and delivered to a destination in the United States, the shipper's postage meter will place a Royal Mail postal indicia on the package for that portion of the postal delivery cost that is attributable to the United Kingdom post office and a United States Postal and Customs postal and customs indicia on the package for that portion of the delivery cost that is attributable to the United States Postal Service and United States Customs.

This application discloses a method and system for facilitating the delivery of a mail piece bearing a post office box identifier to a United States Postal Service Branch, for final delivery to a post office box. The system facilitates the delivery by scanning the mail piece and obtaining the mail piece's destination information. If the destination information includes a post office box identifier, e.g., P.O. Box #1234, the system determines a street address of the post office location containing P.O. Box #1234. The street address is determined using the zip code contained within the destination information. Once the street address is determined, a new label, bearing the street address of the USPS branch location is affixed to the mail piece so that the mail piece can be delivered to the consignee.

A communication system and method transmits electronic mail among multiple users that are senders or recipients of the mail, or both. The system and method use and augment the Internet with a postal server and software (ePostal Service) linked to the Internet. The sender and recipient have terminals also linked to the Internet. The sender uses postal sender software to select transmission using the ePostal Service, with certain automatic premium services, and select certain optional premium services, typically available for an additional cost. The system and method include payment and accounting functions for use of the premium services. The system and method can operate with networks serving multiple terminals. Premium services include sender identification and certification, screening of mail for technical and content risks, encryption, confirmation of receipt and opening of the mail, customizable incentives for recipients to open received mail, and post office “window” and mail holding functions.

A method that enables the post to deliver letters, flats, post cards and packages (mail) addressed to a recipient's virtual post office box and then to be delivered directly to the recipient. The process enables individuals or entities to rent a virtual post office (VPO) box i.e., a box that does not physically exist, from the post office (“post”). Mail addressed to the virtual post office box would be captured by the post during the post's sortation process and rerouted to the specified address of the renter of the virtual post office box.

The present invention relates to a method, a system and corresponding devices for electronic transmission of mail pieces such as post cards front a plurality of local input means (55, 56, 57, 58) at a first geographical location, where an electronic version of for instance a post card can be created to a plurality of local reception and delivery centres or printing facilities (72), where a hard copy of the electronic version of a mail piece is created and subsequently delivered to an addressee. Using a preferred embodiment of the system, a user located at a first geographical location can purchase a post card comprising a picture of a local site of interest and using a user interface post (10) provide this post card with a text message and additional modifications together with the mailing address of an addressee, thereby creating a modified electronic version of the post card. Using the system according to the invention, this electronic version is sent to a reception and delivery centre (72) for instance a local post office or a regional post office (4) receiving mail to be distributed to a number of local post offices. At a local post office in the neighborhood of the addressee a hard copy of the electronic version is created and finally delivered to the addressee. World-wide transmission of the electronic version of a mail piece can for instance be effected via the Internet, although in principle any suitable data transmission network could be used. The system comprises a global portion containing data application means (66), storage means (68) and print server means (69), by means of which global portion for instance data can be shared by the different clients and the electronic version of a mail piece can be routed to the appropriate printing facility (72).

A vending shredder which can be mounted to a wall or other structure or be free standing. This shredder functions much like a vending machine wherein the public can pay per minute to have paper shredded. This shredder can be manufactured in different sizes for example a small residential size can be used in a facility such as a apartment house or small business and a large size could be utilized in a mail box facility, post office or grocery store.

The specification describes a system and method for providing a network using postal routed node topology. The system provides links between databases, General Mail Facilities, Post Offices, and letter carriers. This allows for individuals to receive up to date information regarding mail delivery. It also allows users to communicate directly with the Post Office regarding their mail delivery.

The invention relates o an identification method for handwritten numbers. The method comprises the following steps of preprocessing number images, wherein the preprocessing step comprises the substepsof graying the number images, carrying out binaryzation on the number images, carrying out image denoising, segmenting character strings, carrying out number normalization, and carrying out number refinement; and setting up a deep convolutional neural network model, configuring neural network parameters, generating training set samples and test set samples, adjusting the parameters, training thenetwork model, and identifying the numbers through the trained network mode. According to the method, through preprocessing of the image, influences of noises on the image can be prominently reduced,and the images with different sizes can be normalized into the images with the same size; through utilization of the deep convolutional neural network, the training set samples and the test set samples are generated, the parameters are adjusted, the network is trained, and the numbers are identified through utilization of the trained network model. The handwritten number identification accuracy and rate can be improved under the condition that the complexity is similar, and the method can be widely applied to the fields such as post office letter sorting and bank check inputting.