Australia Post

The Australian Postal Service uses a variant of the 4 State code with Reed-Solomon Error Correction.

Australia Post barcodes are made up of a two digit Format Control Field (FCC), an 8 digit Delivery Point Identifier (DPID), and (for Customer 2 & 3 formats) a variable length Customer Information Field.

For convenience some of the formats may be created automatically:

Standard Customer code (FCC=11): by unchecking both the EXTRA1 and IEXTRA2 checkboxes in applications, or clearing the flags parameter bits DL_FLAG_EXTRA1 (bit 4 of the flags variable) and DL_FLAG_EXTRA2 (bit 5 of the flags variable).

Customer 2 (FCC=59): by checking the EXTRA1 checkbox in applications, or setting the flags parameter bit DL_FLAG_EXTRA1 (bit 4 of the flags variable).

Customer 3 (FCC=62): by checking the EXTRA2 checkbox in applications, or setting the flags parameter bit DL_FLAG_EXTRA2 (bit 5 of the flags variable).

If both EXTRA1 and EXTRA2 flags are checked (or both flags parameter bits DL_FLAG_EXTRA1 (bit 4 of the flags variable) and DL_FLAG_EXTRA2 (bit 5 of the flags variable) are set, then the barcode type is determined by the first two digits of the data according to the following table:

 

FCC type number of bits 11 Customer Barcode 37 33 Metering 52 44 Manifesting 67 45 Customer Barcode Bussiness Reply Paid 37 52 Customer Barcode Bussiness Reply Paid 52 59 Metering 52 62 Metering 67 67 Customer Barcode International Reply Paid 67 70 Metering 67 72 Customer Barcode International Reply Paid 52 77 Customer Barcode International Reply Paid 67 92 Redirection Barcode 37

 

If the 8 digit DPIP is 00000000 then the FCC field is set to 00. This FCC is used on mail where customers DO NOT include the DPID of a customer, but do want to take advantage of imbedding their own data in the barcode.

 

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The barcode will typically be printed with a height of 5 mm, and an overall length reflecting the number of bars at approximately 22 - 25 bars per inch

 

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