Australia Post

Australia Post 4 State Customer Code

The Australia Post 4 State Customer Code is a barcode used by the Australian Postal Service to encode the data on letter mail.

Data and Options

• The first two characters of the data field are digits used to specify the manditory FCC type of the symbols, either:
  • 11: Customer Barcode 1 ("Standard Customer Barcode")
  • 45: Reply Paid Barcode
  • 59: Customer Barcode 2
  • 62: Customer Barcode 3
  • 87: Routing Barcode (not implemented)
  • 92: Redirection Barcode (not implemented)
• The next eight characters are digits that specify the manditory DPID.
• The number of remaining characters varies according to the given FCC code and these specify the contents of the customer information field in one of two alphabets:
  • The custinfoenc option should be supplied as custinfoenc=numeric 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 #

Examples

FCC 62 symbol with character customer data:

Data:    6279438541AaaB 155
Options: custinfoenc=character includetext
Encoder: auspost

FCC 59 symbol with numeric customer data:

Data:    593221132401234567
Options: custinfoenc=numeric includetext
Encoder: auspost