USPS Intelligent Mail barcode packing function?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

Further to my message from last Friday, the issue actually is that the
USPS is replacing PostNET (and PlaNET, apparently, though I hadn't
ever heard of that) with a new barcoding system called Intelligent
Mail; it will be a 4-level barcode that looks like PostNet, but with
extra bars sticking out the other direction... and most importantly for
our purposes here today, the data is packed before encoding -- unlike
Postnet and other barcodes where each digit maps directly into a
collection of bars.

If you mail at automation rates, you have to convert to IM by 2009.

So, before I go off and write the code myself, has anyone *else*
already written the filePro code that maps the collection of 31 max
digits into 65 max barcode bars (full, ascender, tracker, descender)?

Cheers,
-- jra
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