Breakthrough Business Method Patent Awarded for Cost Effective Return Mail (UAA Pieces) Solution

BIRMINGHAM, AL ? Return Mail, Inc. (RMI), inventors of an innovative and cost effective solution that eliminates the handling of Undeliverable As Addressed (UAA) mail, today announced that a business method patent has been awarded by the United States Patent Office for their automated return mail system and that international patents are pending. Issued November 30, 2004, RMI?s patent (6,826,548) covers the method, system and program product for processing returned mail, including encoding outgoing subscriber mail with identification information for the intended recipients, scanning and decoding the identification information on the undeliverable mail, and electronically transferring to the subscriber updated identification information for the intended recipients.

Every year, it is estimated that between 4 and 6 billion pieces of mail are returned by the United States Post Office as undeliverable, at a USPS cost of nearly $2 Billion annually. RMI?s patented solution can totally eliminate undeliverable mail piece handling, and greatly reduce the associated costs as well as increase A/R collections, improve cash flow, control fraud and improve customer service.