Overview

Deutsche Post Identcode is an implementation of Interleaved 2 of 5 that is used by German Post for mail routing.

Invoking

• The data consists of a consecutive string of 11 or 12 numbers consisting of:
• 2 digit primary distribution centre identifier
• 3 digit customer identifier
• 6 digit mail piece identifier
• 1 digit checksum (may be omitted)
• The mandatory check digit is calculated automatically and any user provided check digit is discarded.

Example

Identical symbols, input provided with an without a check digit:

0 0 moveto (563102430313) (includetext) /identcode /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

0 0 moveto (56310243031) (includetext) /identcode /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec