---
id: "s10upu"
kind: "datatype"
status: "stable"
is_pii: false
categories: ["objectids", "shipping"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 65
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/s10upu"
---

# S10 (UPU standard) (`s10upu`)

The UPU S10 standard defines a system for assigning 13-character identifiers to international postal items for the purpose of tracking and tracing them during shipping.

- Parent datatype: `tracknum`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Objects identifiers (objectids), Shipping and delivery (shipping)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-z]{2}\d{8}\d{1}[A-z]{2}$
```

## Mappings

- schema_org: `trackingNumber`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S10_(UPU_standard)>

## Quality

Score 65/100. Missing: examples, negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/s10upu.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/shipping/s10upu.yaml>