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A typical mail processing plant might have 5 or 10 of these units running at full speed between 6 PM and 1 AM. To ensure your mail speeds along to its destination, you want to stay out of this bin! There are other bins that are not reject bins, but as we will see, some of those bins earmark your envelope for additional and potentially time-consuming processing steps.
If they do, they are expeditiously moved to the next sortation steps and are sent out to the destination city by truck or aircraft around mid-night.
Figure 3. The Advanced Facer-Canceller Machine. The amazing thing about this is that they process the letters so quickly that they seem like a blur when you look at the machine! Figure 5. The belts which reorient envelopes so they are all facing the same way. Figure 7: The high speed address camera and RVE barcode sprayer. This type of mailpiece will not have a FIM so the facer-canceller will look for the phosphorescent trace of the stamp or the fluorescence of the meter mark as evidence of postage payment.
Assuming fluorescence or phosphorescence is detected, the envelope will be discharged into a non-reject bin. But the mail in that bin will then go into a holding area. Meanwhile, the photograph of that envelope will be telecommunicated to a remote video encoding facility which is staffed by dozens of operators looking at the envelope images on computer screens.
This information is sent back to the SCF and, hours later, these letters in the holding pen are run through another machine which literally sprays the correct Intelligent Mail barcode on the lower right corner of the envelope. The machine knows what Intelligent Mail barcode to spray on a given envelope by reading the pink RVE barcode that was assigned by the facer-canceller.
This envelope will do very well compared to the hand written one. It will therefore not transmit the picture of this envelope to the RVE facility. Provided there is a stamp or meter mark on the envelope, it will end up in the FIM A bin. Envelopes in the FIM A bin immediately go to the Intelligent Mail barcode sorters which segregate the mail by destination city or geographic region. This sorted mail is then loaded on the trucks and aircraft immediately.
This envelope will be handled in much the same way as the FIM A example. It immediately goes to the barcode sorter and is loaded on to outbound transportation. The facer canceller will look for a fluorescent stamp or meter ink. The RVE cameras can generally tell if the envelope is handwritten or printed with computer or typewriter. If it makes the determination that it is printed, it will discharge the envelope into yet another bin. This machine uses a computer to scan the address and convert the scan to characters.
This machine is quite fast, but it does add another step to the mail processing before they envelopes can go to the final barcode sorting machine and out the door. You can see that some of the processes the USPS goes through to put a barcode on each envelope are time-consuming and costly. The RVE process is the most extreme example of this. Why do they go to so much trouble to do this at the outbound SCF? The Intelligent Mail barcode is scanned multiple times between the outbound SCF and final destination.
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