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Article appears not to mention the USPS IMb, nor its predecessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Mail_barcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelli
by js2 4y ago
Article appears not to mention the USPS IMb, nor its predecessors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Mail_barcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Mail_barcode
I only recently learned it can encode a specific mailbox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_point
(I was trying to figure out how a letter got delivered to an address in GA when the handwritten address was for somewhere in WA. Somehow the barcode did not match the handwritten address at all. It got delivered to the address specified in the bar code - https://ibb.co/Y04q78V https://ibb.co/Y04q78V)
- tastyfreeze 4y agoI was going to point out the same thing. It is shown in the header image of the 1D section but doesn't have it's own description.
- sennight 4y agoI could rant for hours about USPS planet codes and how busted the backend was a decade ago when I had to integrate our industrial printers and inventory tracking system into it. But it can really be summed up with this: they used local time for timestamps and neglected to record the offset from UTC... you wouldn't believe how many time zones there are in the continental United States. It was almost like the indian reservations had it out for programmers, with their totally capricious clock changes.
- davchana 4y agoSometimes when I get a letter which is for previous residents, I used to sharpie the address, and drop it back in mailbox, it will again appear in my Informed Delivery, there I learned this barcode & cover it too. Just last week a letter from IRS had this code two times, and I covered only one, I missed the other one.