The U.S. Postal Service has Long Been Touting the Intelligent Mail barcode (IMB) as a revolutionary change — one that will expand catalogers’ ability to track individual pieces of mail and provide ...

MANY MAILERS WERE LEERY OF THE INTELLIGENT MAIL BARCODE (IMB) when the U.S. Postal Service began accepting mail bearing the new 65-bar barcode in May. But the discounts the USPS began offering in ...

Beginning in May, the U.S. Postal Service will start to accept mail pieces bearing the Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB), the much-talked-about system that’s expected to make it easier for both mailers ...

Barcode Basics comes in two versions -- one that employs the commonly used Code39 format and one that features POSTNET, which encodes ZIP and U.S. Postal Service delivery point codes onto envelopes.