Information-Based Indicia

{{Short description|USPS postage evidencing standard}}

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Information-Based Indicia (IBI) is a secure postage evidencing standard used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to indicate electronic postage payment.{{cite report| title=Performance Criteria for Information-Based Indicia and Security Architecture for Open IBI Postage Evidencing Systems | publisher=United States Postal Service | date=February 23, 2000 | edition=2nd}}

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).