>>Marty,
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>>If you don't find everything you need I posted a file postalbc.zip on the Compuserve dBASE and FoxPro forums a long time ago. It had the code needed to generate the checksum digit and print a barcode on a HP-PCL5 compatible printer. I can crank up the old 486 and dig the file off of it if you need.
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>>>Boss says, "Wouldn't it be cool if we could pre-barcode our envelopes?"
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>>>"Sure boss, what do those barcodes mean?"
>>>
>>>"Dunno, let's do it."
>>>
>>>Can anyone point me in the right direction? He's talking about those half barcode jobs that live under the addressee info.
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>I still recommend getting a copy of the DMM. While printing the barcode may be 'kewl', there are economic reasons for using it - like access to reduced postal rates with alternate classes of service. The DMM provides the information on the rules for classes of service such as sort orders, bundling, minimum/maximum number of pieces, restricitions on originator (some classes of service are only available to non-profits, or require special bulk-mail licenses), whether the mail is picked up at your site or delivered to a designated receiving point (BMC or DBMC), and the intended destinations (example: there are big discounts for mail delivered to the Bulk Mail Center where all the mail is sent within the zips serviced by that BMC if the mail is barcoded and sorted by ZIP+4, but only if you send the mail with the correct class of service requested. There's no benefit to barcoding and sorting (other than quicker transit through the US Snail's mail centers) for small mail batches, or if
>you send everything First Class.)

Depends on the definition of "small". Presorted bulk mail going out "Standard", the new name for 3rd class can be as little as 200 pieces.

Steve