the 34 reject 34 path 70 thereby bypassing both transfer stations 10 and 12 fig2 illustrates the flats advancing into transfer station 10 these flats have the postage indicia along the loading edge but at the bottom they are advanced by belts 44a b past the aperture 86 and against the deflector 92a so that they are caused to fall downwardly through a 90 u00b0 arc onto the conveyor 84 as illustrated as viewed looking down onto the incoming conveyor the postage indicia will be in the upper right hand corner similarly the flats directed into station 12 will be deflected backwardly so as to fall onto the conveyor 84 as shown in fig2 so that all flats upon conveyor 84 will be aligned in the same fashion the rejects which have passed through stations 10 and 12 will include all flats having properly positioned indicia along the tailing edges these are handled in exactly the same manner by the second pair of transfer stations although the indicia of the flats on the belt 84 39 will be on the bottom as shown in fig3 flats whose postage indicia do not meet either of the criteria required for the first or second pair of stations will be advanced onto a reject path where they may be handled manually or as desired referring now to fig3 it will be noted that there are two conveyors 110 110 39 onto which postal trays t may be loaded manually or otherwise for downward movement.