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Newsgroups: alt.snail-mail
From: "dbriggs" <dbrig...@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:21:43 GMT
Local: Thurs, Jun 24 2004 11:21 am
Subject: Re: orange bar code
news:10dkn64tjo1s0d9@corp.supernews.com...
> "PFluff" <jus...@anything.com> wrote in message As much as I've run an AFC, I've never noticed if "readable" addresses got > news:%74Cc.3500$BV.1175@newssvr32.news.prodigy.com... >> (clipped) That bar code is just an identifier that is sprayed >> on when a piece can't be read by machine (end clipped). > That doesn't seem to make sense. Must be more to it than > that? because a lot, I'd say almost all? of the DPS'd letters > have an orange bar code on the back of them. All those > couldn't be machine read? I remember reading something > quite awhile back (maybe read here) about what they > were for but can't remember what the thread said. an ID tag (before a change I'll speak of later). There are (or, effectively, used to be) 3 categories of mail that the AFC sorted to; FIM (already BCed), Typed & Readable (to the OCR for a BC), and Non-readable (to a BCS to wait for info from a REC site). For the last 6 months or so (at least here), all the mail, except for FIM, I've been out of the Automation loop for a year or more, just do AFCs for You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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