Information-Based Indicia

Information-Based Indicia (IBI) is a secure postage evidencing standard used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to indicate electronic postage payment.

[1] Information-Based Indicia is a two-dimensional PDF417 or data matrix barcode combined with human-readable information.

The barcode data contains such information as amount of postage, origin zip code, destination, mail class, weight, confirmation/tracking numbers, and a cryptographic signature.

The human-readable information shows at a minimum the information required by the USPS Domestic Mail Manual (DMM).

[1] This postal system–related article is a stub.