Japan Post

Japan Post 4 State Barcode

The Japan Post 4 state barcode symbology is used by the Japan Post service to encode the delivery point identifier on letter mail.

Also known as: Kasutama Barcode, Customer Barcode.

Uses:

• Mail in Japan: the customer barcode, carrying the postcode and address.

Standards: Japan Post Customer Barcode Technical Specification.

Data and Options

• The data may contain any of the following characters:
  • Capital letters A-Z
  • Digits 0-9
  • Hyphen -
• The data is at most 20 characters, each letter counting as two.
• The mandatory check digit is calculated automatically.
• The includecheckintext option makes the calculated check digit appear in the human readable text.

Examples

A delivery point identifier:

Data:    6540123789-A-K-Z
Options:
Encoder: japanpost