sequence thus as mail drops come in each drop is sequenced and the sequence field serves to identify the order in which a tray should be processed the customer name filed 306 identifies the client for whom the processor is processing the mail in a particular tray the process date field 308 job id field 310 receive date field 312 and receive time field 314 each include the information indicated by their titles the process by date and time field 316 identifies the date by which a mail drop for a particular customer must be complete this information may be derived from the processing standards to which the processor commits when contracting with a client this information may be obtained automatically from information stored in the computing device running the mail processing database application the trays received field 318 indicates the number of trays in a mail drop for a customer some of the tray tag information will be explained in more detail below the tray tags also may include identifiers that are unique to each tray or process segment this makes it possible to not only track the status of a mail drop but to also track the individual status of each tray that makes up a mail drop returning to fig2 in conjunction with fig3 it should be noted that the.