Decode one
Scan or paste a barcode and see every part of it.
Make one
Generate a valid barcode from fields.
Where you’ll see it
- Older tracked mailings, usually alongside a POSTNET barcode.
- Not on new mail. Its tracking data is now part of the Intelligent Mail barcode.
Anatomy
Like POSTNET, every bar is tall or short: But each digit is five bars with three tall and two short, the reverse of POSTNET.
So a PLANET Code was 12 or 14 digits long, with a frame bar at each end.
Variants and related types
- POSTNET: the routing barcode PLANET was designed to sit beside.
- USPS Intelligent Mail: combines routing and tracking in one barcode.
Scanning it in your app
Specification
- USPS Domestic Mail Manual, 2004 archive, section S941: the Confirm service and its PLANET Code.