NO OPT record in AFP file

My application identify payments and amount to pay to different parties. In some cases, a party may receive more than one payment.
The payment data is sent to our banking system. The banking system assign cheque number and generate cheque image in AFP format to send to the print vendor.
Currently, all cheques return to us and we put them in the envelop, either one cheque per envelop or multi-cheque per envelop.
In the new process, we'd identify the cheques that should be mailed in a single envelop.
The print vendor suggested to create a NO OPT record before the payment record(s) to identify the envelop requirement.
I expect our banking system to create the AFP file, and at the same time, create the NO OPT record based on specification we provide to them. But the banking system folks are reluctant to make any changes to their system to create the NO OPT record.
I have no problem creating the NO OPT record. My questions are:
1) can I send the NO OPT records and the payment records in one file to the banking system ? The banking system will generate AFP record for the payments and maintain the NO OPT records in the relative position?
2) If the banking system cannot accept NO OPT records in the file, can I add NO OPT records to the AFP file (ie. after the cheque image is generated), assuming there is a way to recognize the cheque information when it is in AFP format (e.g. policy number, address) ?
This is the first time I deal with AFP file. I'd appreciate any information related to the process I described about.

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