Introduction of Planet Barcode Font
The United States Postal Service (USPS) created a linear barcode called PLANET (Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique) to automatically identify, categorize, and monitor mail packets or letters. On January 28, 2013, the USPS Intelligent Mail barcode (IMb) has taken the place of PLANET barcodes. Other names for the PLANET barcode are USPS PLANET barcode and USPS confirm service barcode.
USPS implements this barcode symbology to confirm mail delivery services. There is information is provided by the USPS's confirming service, which includes the origin confirm (arriving reply mail sent back by consumers) and the destination confirm (departing mails going to consumers).
Sample of Planet Linear Barcode Font.
Format
The PLANET Code is a "two-state" barcode that is 12 or 14 digits long. In these barcodes, data is encoded in half- and full-height bars and it always began and finished with a single long "framing bar". A set of five bars (three tall and two short bars) with a two-out-of-five code is used to represent each unique digit. All of the bars and spaces are the same width. A check-sum digit or correction character is present in every PLANET Code. This digit should always be a single digit (0–9) that, when added to the total of the other digits in the barcode, produces a whole number that is a multiple of 10.
Mailers must select the proper PLANET Code format for the specific type of Confirm mail:
- Destination Confirm to monitor outgoing mail
- Origin Confirm to monitor inbound mail
➨ Destination Confirm PLANET Barcode Format :
There are a total of eight essential components in the Destination Confirm PLANET codes:
- A Leading Quiet Zone
- The Start Bar (a tall frame bar)
- The 2-digit Service ID Type
- The 5-digit Subscriber ID issued by USPS
- The 6-digit Mailer Use Code as specified by the Mailer
- A Check Digit
- The Stop Bar (a tall frame bar)
- A Trailing Quiet Zone
➨ Origin Confirm PLANET Barcode Format :
There are a total of seven essential components in the Origin Confirm PLANET codes:
- A Leading Quiet Zone
- The Start Bar (a tall frame bar)
- The 2-digit Service ID Type
- The 9 or 11-digit Customer ID
- A Check Digit
- The Stop Bar (a tall frame bar)
- A Trailing Quiet Zone
Benefits of PLANET Barcodes
There are numerous benefits that are provided by the PLANET barcodes to various users-
- It assists people in improving mailings and obtaining mail-related goals through the use of vital mail intelligence data.
- It helps people to take appropriate and effective business decisions.
- With the help of destination confirms planet barcodes, users may predict when their messages will be delivered to recipients.
- With the help of origin confirms planet barcodes, users may determine when to predict a response.
Application Areas
The planet barcodes are mainly used in the postal industries. There are two major functions that are performed by using the planet barcodes-
- Used to sort mailings by mail processing equipment
- Individually recognizing and monitoring postal mail.
Create PLANET Barcode Labels
Design Planet Barcode font by using DRPU Barcode Software. You can design personalized barcode labels using Barcode Designing View module or Barcode Settings module. After creating the Planet Barcode labels, you can also send them to multiple Email addresses at a same time by using Email option provided by the software.
