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Some scammers may put the return label on an advertisement and remove all shipping information except for the barcode. This may cause the company to throw out the 'return', thinking it is junk mail. This serves the same purpose as a package redirection scam; the company believes they mismanaged the return and refunds the scammer's money.
It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using tracking numbers include UPS, [1] FedEx, [2] and the United States Postal Service. [3]
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]
A possible Intelligent Mail Barcode for the Wikimedia Foundation address. The Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMb) is a 65-bar barcode for use on mail in the United States. [1] The term "Intelligent Mail" refers to services offered by the United States Postal Service for domestic mail delivery.
The Postmaster General has stated that the system is primarily used for mail sorting, [2] though it also enables the USPS to retroactively track mail correspondence at the request of law enforcement. [2] It was created in the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, including two postal workers.
Most often, the delivery point is added, usually being the last two digits of the address or PO box number. The barcode starts and ends with a full bar (often called a guard rail or frame bar and represented as the letter "S" in one version of the USPS TrueType Font) and has a check digit after the ZIP, ZIP+4, or delivery point. The encoding ...
The FIM is intended for use primarily on preprinted envelopes and postcards and is applied by the company printing the envelopes or postcards, not by the USPS. The FIM is a nine-bit code consisting of ones (vertical bars) and zeroes (blank spaces). The following five codes are in use: FIM A: || | || (110010011) FIM B: | || || | (101101101)