Overview

The AusPost 4 State Customer Code is used by the Australian Postal Service to encode the data on letter mail.

Invoking

• The first two characters of the data field are digits used to specify the manditory FCC type of the symbols, either 11, 59 or 67
• The next eight characters are digits specify the manditory DPID

• The number of remaining characters varies according to the given FCC code and specify the contents of the customer information field in one of two alphabets

  • The custinfoenc=numeric option should be supplied if the customer information field is to be encoded using the numeric alphabet which can contain the digits 0-9

  • Otherwise the customer information field is encoded using the default character encoding, custinfoenc=character, which permits any of the following characters:

    • Upper case letters A-Z
    • Lower case letters a-z
    • Digits 0-9
    • Symbols space and #
• The maditory Reed-Solomon check bars are calculated automatically

Example

0 0 moveto (5956439111ABA 9) (custinfoenc=character) auspost barcode