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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 02:40:13 -0500
- From: shri%unreal@cs.umass.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Format of ZIP Code Bars on Envelopes
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 6, Message 3 of 10
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- In article <telecom13.3.6@eecs.nwu.edu> dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu writes:
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- > The barcode starts and ends with a tall bar. The check digit is the
- > number that would be required so that the sum of all digits plus the
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- Curious enough to hunt for another factoid ... does anyone know what
- fraction of the entire snail mail in the US is generated by business
- and how much by Aunt Agatha ?
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- Should give some insight into how much mail the automatic sorters
- actually can ever benefit from. And if the dreams of USPS to read
- human handwriting are so important? And if the "tele-sorter" (aha ...
- that makes it related to TELECOM Digest :-) experiment, where the
- sorter machines will project image of letters to a sorter clerk via
- telecom and the clerk punches button from miles away to send the
- letter to the right bin, is likely to be significant.?
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- Also, Is there a summary of several bar codes ftp-able somewhere ?
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- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in )
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