Mailing package for facilitating automatic sorting of mail

摘要

A method and apparatus for facilitating the automatic sorting of mail by optical scanning equipment is provided and includes a first, usually dark-colored sheet, and a second sheet of a generally light- colored material overlying the first sheet and having a coded array of apertures therethrough, thereby permitting the first sheet to be read by the optical scanning equipment through the apertures in the second sheet. The array of apertures in the second sheet is coded to represent a desired original address, and a second array of apertures can be provided representing a return address. In such a case, various facilities are provided to cause the first sheet to selectively underlie either the original or return coded arrays of apertures so that the scanning equipment will read the desired address code.