[rec.puzzles] Bar code trivia.

flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) (06/06/89)

On the bottom of business-reply envelopes there's usually a set of
short lines of two different heights.  This is a bar encoding of the
ZIP+4 of the destination.  If you don't know the encoding, you might
enjoy trying to figure it out.  I spent a few minutes puzzling over a
handful of envelopes and was pleasantly surprised to find it was an
encoding I had read about and forgotten long ago.  Now if I could
remember all the interesting properties of the code...
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!shire!flee