PLANET Barcode Introduction

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The Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique (PLANET) was invented by the US Postal Office to track customer's piece of mail. PLANET barcode can be anywhere in the address block portion except the lower right.

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PLANET Barcode Features

Encodable Chars	The Planet barcode encodes 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 The PLANET barcode is either 11 or 13 digits long without the check digit
Checksum Digit	The check digit is based on Mod 10 algorithm
Technical specification	PLANET barcode is the inverse of POSTNET Code digit Symbology; each POSTNET Code digit uses a combination of two tall and three short bars whereas each PLANET Code digit uses three tall and two short bars.

PLANET Barcode Structure

Quiet Zone	Frame Bar	Data Digits	Check Digit	Frame Bar	Quiet Zone
1	2	3	4	5	6

Barcode Symbologies

2D/Matrix Barcodes

Data Matrix

PDF417

QR Code

1D/Linear Barcodes

Codabar

Code 2 of 5

Code 11

Code 39

Code 93

Code 128

EAN-8

EAN-13

GS1 128 (UCC/EAN-128)

Identcode

Intelligent Mail (OneCode)

Interleaved 2 of 5

ISBN

ISSN

ITF-14

Leitcode

MSI Plessey

Planet

Postnet

RM4SCC

UPC-A

UPC-E