Australia Post

Australia Post 4 State Customer Code

The Australia Post 4 State Customer Code is a barcode used by Australia Post to encode the data on letter mail.

Also known as: 4SCC, 4 State Customer Code.

Uses:

• Letter mail in Australia, carrying the Delivery Point Identifier (DPID) for automated sorting.

Standards: Australia Post Customer Barcode Technical Specifications.

Data and Options

• The first two digits of the data field are the mandatory Format Control Code (FCC), either:
  • 00: Null Customer Barcode, for customer use only, which Australia Post treats as unbarcoded. It takes the length of FCC 11, 59 or 62 as its customer information requires.
  • 11: Customer Barcode 1 ("Standard Customer Barcode")
  • 45: Reply Paid Barcode
  • 59: Customer Barcode 2
  • 62: Customer Barcode 3
  • 87: Routing Barcode
  • 92: Redirection Barcode
• The next eight characters are digits that specify the mandatory DPID.
• Any remaining characters specify the customer information field, which FCCs 11, 45, 87 and 92 do not have. FCC 59 takes up to 8 digits or 5 characters, and FCC 62 up to 15 digits or 10 characters, in one of two alphabets:
  • The custinfoenc option should be supplied as custinfoenc=numeric if the customer information field is to be encoded using the numeric alphabet which can contain the digits 0-9.
  • Otherwise the customer information field is encoded using the default character encoding, custinfoenc=character, which permits any of the following characters:
    • Upper case letters A-Z
    • Lower case letters a-z
    • Digits 0-9
    • Symbols space and #

Examples

FCC 62 symbol with character customer data:

Data:    6279438541AaaB 155
Options: custinfoenc=character includetext
Encoder: auspost

FCC 59 symbol with numeric customer data:

Data:    593221132401234567
Options: custinfoenc=numeric includetext
Encoder: auspost