Apparatus and method for computerized postage determination

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In an inserting machine for collating inserts and placing a collation of said inserts into an envelope a, method is disclosed of determining the amount of postage to be applied to said envelope into which said collation of inserts have been inserted. The inserting machine includes feed deck and a plurality of feed station adapted to selectively feed said inserts onto said feed deck. The method includes (A) feeding along said feed deck a control document having code thereon, (B) reading said code on said control document, (C) storing in data processing memory means a set of predetermined threshold values of a measurable cumulative attribute of said inserts said, threshold values …