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Aiobhan
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 		A quick wiki reveals that the barcodes are encoded in code 128. I'll see if I can break them up.

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 		Canadian looking at US postal codes
Ok so I am really new to these and this one seems to be extra hard so forgive me if i am way off. But most ARGs are web based, so maybe we should be looking at the numbers and everything as an IP address or some sort of web address? Also has anyone really gone over the evelop to see if there is anything odd there numerically? I am Canadian so i am not sure what would be missing from a US address.

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 		Awesome, Aiobhan! I'll try to investigate what the stars mean. (they're probably based also on Maya.

Welcome, thatguy83!
That's a very interesting thought, you've got there.
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 		I've been look so freaking closely at all the images, i can't find anything puzzling that we haven't see before. This is starting to get really frustrating!

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 		Barcodes
Doesn't have to be UPC, there are multiple barcodes. Including ones that use 11 digits.

via Taltech

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POSTNET

POSTNET (POSTal Numeric Encoding Technique) is a 5, 9 or 11 digit numeric only bar code symbology used by the U.S. Postal Service to encode ZIP Code information for automatic mail sorting by zip code. The bar code may represent a five digit ZIP Code (32 bars), a nine digit ZIP + 4 code (52 bars) or an eleven digit Delivery Point code (62 bars).

POSTNET is unlike other bar codes because data is encoded in the height of the bars instead of in the widths of the bars and spaces. Most standard bar code readers cannot decode POSTNET. This symbology was chosen by the Postal Service mainly because it is extremely easy to print on almost any type of printer. POSTNET is a fixed dimension symbology meaning that the height, width and spacing of all bars must fit within exact tolerances.

Microsoft Access and Word have built in tools for generating PostNet bar codes. See our tutorial on how to use the tools in Word to create PostNet bar codes in your mail merge documents.


Unfortunately, by my count, we have 24 bars.

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Aiobhan
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 		These aren't scannable barcodes - at least, not in code 128 or any of the basic codes. Perhaps they are mail codes, which I haven't looked into. I say this because they have no start symbol or end symbol (long and convoluted explanation behind that - see here).




EDIT:
PostNet barcodes look vaguely like long lines and short lines. These barcodes aren't PostNet.

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 		So.... in other words.... they don't work?

Oh, and my search for information on a Mayan Star God has been so far, fruitless. I don't think there was one.
I'll keep looking on their astronomical findings....

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 		Numbers?
So i tried adding up all the numbers to see if there was anything there. If you add up the numbers on one sticker the sum is 53, if you add together all the stickers the sum is 112. If you assume the other side with the dots and lines are identical numbers then the total of the whole pade is 224. No magic number 23 but maybe someone can see a pattern or relevance here.

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Aiobhan
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Chronus_Valtiel wrote:
So.... in other words.... they don't work?

Oh, and my search for information on a Mayan Star God has been so far, fruitless. I don't think there was one.
I'll keep looking on their astronomical findings....


Yeah basically, they don't work.

Pantheon.org is your friend for finding gods.

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 		Thanks a lot, Aiobhan! I'll look into it.

I searched for "Mayan Star God" and got one result, probably nothing at all, but I might as well put it on:
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/x/xaman_ek.html
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 		I think these barcodes are pretty obviously clues made up expressly for this. Smile

Also the two sets aren't identical. What that has to do with "look for what we are missing" Probably comparing them is a good way to start.
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Aiobhan
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 		It's fairly easy to create barcodes.

These are, in fact, in Codabar. Not Code 128.

Just something interesting.
They're also coded to read as something other than the numbers below them - I just don't know what yet.

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 		Could the choice of stamp on the envelope carry any sort of meaning?

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 		We've already concluded that four stars are missing.

EmmanuelGoldstein pointed this picture out:

http://image.bayimg.com/aafgcaabd.jpg

Try to find the circled stars on the Mayan Bar Codes.

And a good point about the stamp.
I'm no collector, but I don't think I'm familiar with that one.
But then again.
They had to ship it somehow....
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Aiobhan
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Luemnus wrote:
Could the choice of stamp on the envelope carry any sort of meaning?


That stamp is a forever stamp. They always work, from now until infinity, no matter how much postage may be.

I have some in my wallet.
They're ridiculously common.

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