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Posted 10/12/2008   07:01 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Cakes to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
you get no clues and I don't know the answer.

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I cannot see the barcode clearly, but aren't they coded with the zip of the town/city that the receiver lives in?
If you look at this post I made a while back you'll see the USPS placed the wrong barcode on the letter and it got sent to my town (wrong town and to the wrong address --although I still could kick myself for not keeping those covers (well, maybe)!)

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Posted 10/12/2008   1:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gussyboy1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I guess that's what you are asking about? If not, please explain.
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I must of had too many beers or my vision is just a little blurry. LOL. Yeah I'm having trouble seeing it too.
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The bad thing is I cannot get a better print. When I blow it up it doesn't get any better but as it is I can see that the top has capital letters and numbers mixed. I can see the barcode well enough to see it is not the groupings the USPS uses for their standard zip barcodes.

The USPS uses groupings of five with two of the five being long. The long ones tell the machine which ones to count.

the five bars stand for
7 4 2 1 0

the 4 and 1 are long
so the grouping stands for 5

to designate zero they use 7 and 4.

So the USPS code for a zip would have started with one long bar as a bracket; and then it would have had groupings of five that spelled out a zipcode; then it would have a single selfcheck grouping of five; then it would have a long bar to show end. The above pic does not reflect that sequence and it even has more bars than a zip+4+2 would have.

I have queried the PO's Dr. BarCode so if I get an answer I'll post it here.

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