Carrier Integration Layer

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Updated September 28, 2026

• One canonical shipment event model is the contract every carrier adapter writes to The model keeps event time apart from receipt time, carries a planned, estimated or actual classifier and stores the raw carrier code with the mapping version, so no consumer needs to branch on carrier.
• Carrier status mapping works on meaning, not code strings DCSA defines truck and vessel departure differently under the same code, so a mapping key includes the mode, and an unmapped code goes to quarantine instead of a default status.
• Push delivery needs a reconciliation poll behind it DCSA's callback API obliges retries and lets pending messages expire, which makes duplicates normal and lost events possible, so a scheduled poll recovers what push missed.
• Order by event time and deduplicate by key, never by arrival A deduplication key that includes the carrier makes ingestion idempotent, and a status recomputed from the timeline with precedence ranks keeps a late hub scan from reverting a delivered shipment.
• The absence of a carrier event is a signal in its own right Expected windows per status and lane trigger a targeted poll and then an exception, while per-carrier volume baselines separate a quiet shipment from a broken integration.

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In short: a carrier integration layer translates every carrier's status vocabulary into one canonical shipment event model, so a parcel API scan, an LTL EDI 214 message and a DCSA Track and Trace event land as the same kind of record. The carrier status mapping table below is the core of that design. Around it sit one adapter per carrier and ingestion that expects duplicates and late arrivals. A watchdog catches shipments that stop reporting.

A logistics platform rarely talks to one carrier, and each carrier reports shipments in its own dialect. The carrier integration layer owns the translation between them. Done well, every downstream feature is written once against a stable model.

What a Carrier Integration Layer Does

The layer sits between the platform's shipment domain and the carriers. Inbound, it receives or fetches carrier events, validates them, maps them to canonical events and publishes them. Outbound, it turns a booking or label request into the call a specific carrier expects. Nothing outside the layer should know which carrier moves a shipment except as a data attribute. On a logistics software development project, that boundary decides whether adding the next carrier is a mapping exercise or a rewrite.

Three families of carrier interface cover most parcel, road and ocean freight. Parcel carriers expose REST APIs with tracking endpoints and often push notifications, each with a proprietary status vocabulary. LTL carriers commonly exchange X12 EDI, where the status message is transaction set 214, Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message. X12 describes it on its transaction sets page: "This transaction set can be used by a transportation carrier to provide shippers, consignees, and their agents with the status of shipments in terms of dates, times, locations, route, identifying numbers, and conveyance." Ocean container carriers are the third family. They report through feeds, some built on the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) Track and Trace standard, and theirs is the only family with an openly published shared event vocabulary.

DCSA states the purpose of that vocabulary on its Track and Trace page: "DCSA Track & Trace (T&T) standards establish a technological foundation for continuous visibility into container whereabouts and operational events along the end-to-end container journey." Its scope is container shipping. None of its standards covers parcel or LTL, so a single model spanning all three families is an engineering design choice, not a requirement of any standards body.

DCSA's documentation page lists three Track and Trace releases, 2.2, 2.1 and 1.2, with 2.2 as the newest, and advises: "Make sure to always adopt the latest release." The 2.2 Interface Standard is dated October 2021. DCSA's OpenAPI repository on GitHub also holds a 2.3.0 API definition and a 3.0.0-Beta-1 dated 31 March 2023, neither listed on that page. The beta splits each event into a metadata section and a payload section, makes the event query endpoint mandatory and leaves the subscription part optional to implement. As a beta, it signals direction only. The mapping below uses T&T 2.2 vocabulary and flags where the later definitions differ.

Air cargo is out of scope here and covered in the IATA ONE Record integration guide. ETA prediction and electronic freight documents are out of scope too, since both consume the event stream rather than produce it.

The Canonical Shipment Event Model

The canonical model is the contract every adapter writes to and every consumer reads from. It must lose no carrier information, and no consumer should ever branch on carrier. We recommend a canonical event that carries these fields:

• A platform event id generated by the layer, and separately the source event id the carrier supplied, if any.
• The carrier and its tracking or equipment number, the shipment reference and, where the event concerns one parcel, pallet or container, the handling-unit identifier.
• A canonical status from a closed list, plus an optional reason code for holds and exceptions.
• The event time as reported, with its UTC offset or location time zone, the carrier's creation time where supplied and the layer's receipt time.
• A time classifier: planned, estimated or actual.
• The location as a structured place, such as a facility, port or terminal code, rather than free text, because free-text locations cannot be joined to a lane, a facility calendar or a time zone later.
• The carrier's raw status code, the mapping version that translated it and a pointer to the stored raw payload.
• An optional link to the earlier event this one retracts or supersedes, used by carrier corrections and mapping replays.

We recommend a short canonical status list, about ten as in the table below, because each extra status is one more thing every adapter maps and every consumer handles. Detail that does not change platform behavior belongs in the reason code or the raw payload. Keep event time and receipt time apart without exception: a carrier can report a delivery scan hours late, and one EDI file can carry a day of events. Ordering and SLA measurement run on event time, while integration monitoring runs on receipt time.

The time classifier comes from DCSA, and it earns its place even for carriers that never send one. DCSA's Event Structure Definitions 2.2 treat the classifier as a notation for the different time stamps one event can carry, with an actual time marking the moment the event was completed. The other two differ in stability. A planned time is a commitment: "The time of the planned event will not change after the confirmation has been sent to the customer regardless of operational execution." An estimate is not: "The estimated event is a dynamic value, which can change based on the running forecast of the completion time."

One physical milestone therefore produces several events: a planned departure, revised estimates, then the actual departure. A platform that stores only the latest status per shipment discards exactly what a customer asks about when a vessel slips. Parcel and LTL adapters tag scans as actual and carrier-supplied delivery dates as estimated. The same definitions document warns that its terms are scoped: "Some terms defined in this document could have a different meaning in another context, such as operational or financial purposes." That holds for the whole layer. A carrier's status word is evidence to be mapped, never a value to pass through.

Carrier Status Mapping Table

The table places each canonical event against the three carrier families. Parcel statuses are described generically, since every carrier's vocabulary is its own. For LTL the column is structural only: according to the X12 214 guide, licensed by X12, the message carries an AT7 status segment whose first element is a shipment status code from an X12 code list, alongside a reason code and the status date and time, and each trading partner's own 214 guide states which codes it sends. In the DCSA column sit the eventType discriminator and the T&T 2.2 type code.

Canonical event	Parcel carrier API status (generic)	LTL EDI 214 (structural)	DCSA T&T 2.2 event
Booked	Label or shipment created, carrier not yet in possession	Usually no 214 yet, since the shipment exists on the platform before the carrier reports on it	SHIPMENT: RECE (Received), then CONF (Confirmed) on the booking document
Picked up	Pickup or acceptance scan at origin	Status code for pickup at the shipper, with date, time and location, per the partner's guide	EQUIPMENT: PICK (Pick-up) at the customer location, or GTIN (Gated in) when the loaded container reaches the terminal
Departed	Departed origin or hub facility scan	Status code for departure from a terminal, per the partner's guide	EQUIPMENT: LOAD (Loaded) for the container, then TRANSPORT: DEPA (Departed) for the vessel or truck
Arrived at facility	Arrival scan at a hub or sort facility	Status code for arrival at an intermediate or destination terminal	TRANSPORT: ARRI (Arrived), then EQUIPMENT: DISC (Discharged)
Out for delivery	Loaded on the vehicle for final delivery	Status code for out-for-delivery or a delivery appointment, where the partner sends one	EQUIPMENT: GTOT (Gated out) from the terminal toward the consignee, the nearest counterpart
Delivered	Delivered, often with proof-of-delivery attributes such as a signer name	Status code for delivery completed, with date and time	EQUIPMENT: DROP (Drop-off) at the customer location
Held	Held at a facility, at customs or awaiting information	Status code plus a reason code explaining the hold	SHIPMENT: HOLD (On Hold), cleared by RELS (Released)
Exception	Failed delivery attempt, damage, address problem or weather delay	Status code with a reason code, per the partner's guide	No general exception type in T&T 2.2; derived when a revised EST moves past the PLN time
Inspected	Rarely reported as its own status	Rarely reported as its own status	EQUIPMENT: INSP (Inspected), RSEA (Resealed) or RMVD (Removed), all seal events
Canceled	Label voided or shipment canceled	Carrier-specific, often absent	Not in T&T 2.2; the 2.3.0 definition on GitHub adds CANC as a document status for cancellation

Mapping works on meaning rather than code strings, and DCSA's definitions show why: DEPA completes differently by mode. For road, the Event Structure Definitions say "Departure has been completed once the truck is no longer stationary in front of the loading dock or loading facility." For a vessel or barge, "Departure has been completed once the last mooring has been released." A mapping key therefore includes the mode.

A transport event describes the vessel or truck, while an equipment event describes one container, so the layer links one vessel departure to every container loaded on it before marking a shipment departed. Stuffing and stripping, STUF (Stuffed) and STRP (Stripped), revised in the 2.3.0 definition, have no direct parcel or LTL counterpart. They stay handling-unit events, invisible to customers.

The classifier needs its own validation. In DCSA's event domain definition, the classifier enumeration is commented out and the field is a free string whose values vary by event type, so the OpenAPI schema will not reject an unexpected value. The adapter checks for PLN, EST and ACT itself. Any unmapped type code goes to a quarantine queue with an alert and is never defaulted to a generic in-transit status.

One Adapter per Carrier

Each carrier gets its own adapter with one job: move data between that carrier's interface and the canonical model. It owns credentials, transport (REST calls, a webhook endpoint or an EDI mailbox), parsing, mapping and field validation. Deduplication, ordering, persistence and publication live in a shared pipeline behind the adapters, so every carrier gets the same guarantees.

Mapping tables are versioned data rather than code. Every canonical event records the mapping version that produced it. Because raw payloads are stored, a mapping error found in production is fixed by publishing a new mapping version and replaying the affected payloads, whose output supersedes the old events rather than being deduplicated. Contract tests run recorded carrier payloads through the adapter on every mapping change, and a new carrier API version runs beside the old one until their canonical outputs agree. Stored payloads also hold personal data, since proof-of-delivery signer names and photos can identify people, so raw storage needs a retention rule after which those fields are redacted or the payloads deleted.

On a multi-tenant platform the adapter also works per tenant. Each shipper may bring its own carrier accounts, so credentials, negotiated rates and webhook registrations are stored per tenant and carrier. Where tenants share a carrier account, rate-limit budgets are split per tenant, so one shipper's bulk re-tracking cannot exhaust the quota others depend on.

For ocean carriers, DCSA pitches one API reused across many providers. Its Track and Trace page lists the benefit: "Reduce implementation time and maintenance by reusing the DCSA T&T API to exchange data with multiple providers." A single DCSA adapter parameterized per carrier is a reasonable target, but it still needs per-carrier configuration because conformance is voluntary. The Interface Standard for Track and Trace 2.2 says: "All parties in the container shipping industry are encouraged to implement and follow the data and interface requirements outlined and specified in this document." Each DCSA carrier connection is tested on its own recorded traffic, like any proprietary API.

Webhooks, Polling and DCSA Subscription Callbacks

Polling is simple and recoverable, since a missed poll is repeated, but it costs requests, hits carrier rate limits and adds up to one interval of latency. Push is faster and cheaper per event, and it makes reliability a shared problem between both sides of the connection. DCSA added push between releases. The Interface Standard 2.2 states: "While the DCSA Interface Standard for Track and Trace 1.0 supported a synchronous pull model of an interface, DCSA Interface Standard 2.2 includes an asynchronous push model of an interface."

Push delivery is specified in a separate document, DCSA's Subscription Callback API 1.0. In Track and Trace the carrier publishes and the shipper or consignee subscribes. Events can arrive together: "A Message Bundle is one or more Messages submitted to the Subscriber in a single request to the Callback URL." The handler processes each message independently, so one malformed message does not block the rest.

Retries are where push creates duplicates. The callback specification is unambiguous: "If the request was not a success (HTTP 204), the Publisher MUST retry sending the event." It says to honor a Retry-After header and otherwise recommends exponential back-off. A connection failure is retried like any other failure. The subscriber returns 204 only after the bundle is durably stored and processes afterwards, because a slow handler that times out invites retries of events it already holds.

Authenticity is the next obligation, and the same API sets the bar: "The Subscriber MUST be able to reliably detect and discard fake messages from outsiders without having to contact the Publisher." It is candid about scope: "The API spec only covers the Integrity and Authenticity of the CIA security requirements." Each message carries a signature header with an HMAC of the body, computed with a shared secret whose rotation the subscriber side can initiate. Verification happens before anything is stored, and confidentiality is left to TLS.

Across all three families we recommend push for latency plus a scheduled reconciliation poll for completeness. Poll frequency follows the canonical status, so a shipment out for delivery is checked far more often than one on an ocean leg. After a terminal status the poll drops to a low frequency for a short window, so a carrier correction can still arrive, and then stops.

Idempotency, Duplicates and Out-of-Order Events

Every inbound path delivers duplicates: callback retries, overlapping poll windows, resent EDI files and reconciliation polls returning events a webhook already delivered. Ingestion is made idempotent with a deduplication key. When the carrier supplies a stable event id, the key is carrier plus that id. When it does not, the key is a fingerprint of carrier, tracking or equipment number, raw status code, event time and location. A unique constraint makes the database reject a duplicate, which is safer than check-then-insert logic, and the pipeline treats that rejection as a successful no-op.

EDI allows a coarser check first. Each X12 file arrives in an interchange envelope that wraps one or more functional groups, and both carry control numbers, so a resent file whose interchange and group control numbers were already processed for that trading partner is caught before any event is parsed. Event-level keys still apply, because a partner can resend the same events under new control numbers. For each group received, the layer returns a 997 Functional Acknowledgment, which tells the partner whether the group passed syntax checks.

Tracking numbers make weaker keys than they look. A multi-leg shipment can carry several, for example when a parcel is handed to a last-mile partner or a container moves from the ocean leg to a drayage carrier, so the shipment holds a list of carrier references, each tied to its carrier and leg. Numbers also collide across carriers and some carriers reuse them, so the fingerprint includes the carrier and an event only matches a reference whose active time window covers the event time.

Order of arrival means nothing. A departure scan can arrive after the arrival scan, and a batch can deliver days of events in reverse. The pipeline stores every event in the shipment timeline by event time and recomputes the current status from the timeline. Each canonical status carries a precedence rank, and a late lower-rank event is recorded without moving the current status backwards. Delivered does not revert to Arrived at facility because an old hub scan turned up.

Precedence needs explicit exceptions from the physical process. A second out-for-delivery scan after a failed attempt is forward progress. A return to sender restarts movement in the opposite direction. A genuine carrier correction to a delivered status must be allowed through. These rules live with the canonical model, and recorded out-of-order sequences belong in its test suite.

Estimates follow their own rule. A revised estimate supersedes the earlier one for the same milestone, chosen by when the carrier created it rather than by which estimated time is later, because forecasts move in both directions. An actual time closes the milestone. Corrections are the hardest case: DCSA's 3.0.0-Beta-1 adds retraction of an earlier event by its id, while a parcel or LTL correction usually arrives as a contradicting event. The canonical model supports an explicit retraction link, and other adapters rely on the precedence rules.

Time zones cause the quietest defects. EDI status times are often local to the reporting location with no offset. Adapters resolve the offset from the event location, store the original string next to the normalized UTC value and quarantine any event whose time cannot be resolved, because one wrong offset can reorder a whole timeline.

Some events arrive before the platform knows their shipment, for example when a label was created outside the platform. These orphan events are parked rather than dropped: the layer holds them for a bounded period, attaches them once a shipment with a matching carrier reference appears and alerts on any still unmatched when the period ends.

An illustrative trace for one shipment and a generic carrier, with event times on day 1 unless marked otherwise:

Arrival order	Raw input	Pipeline action	Current status after
1	Webhook: pickup scan, event time 08:40	Mapped to Picked up and stored	Picked up
2	Webhook: arrival scan at the destination terminal, 21:15	Mapped to Arrived at facility and stored	Arrived at facility
3	Reconciliation poll returns the 08:40 pickup scan again	Deduplication key already stored, event dropped	Arrived at facility
4	EDI file received on day 2: departure from the origin terminal, 12:05	Stored in the timeline by event time; lower rank, so the status does not move back	Arrived at facility
5	Webhook: delivered, day 2 at 10:20	Mapped to Delivered and stored	Delivered

The resulting canonical timeline reads Picked up at 08:40, Departed at 12:05 and Arrived at facility at 21:15 on day 1, then Delivered at 10:20 on day 2, even though the departure reached the platform after the arrival scan.

The Silent Shipment Problem

In carrier tracking, the hardest failure to see is the event that never arrives. A shipment sits at its last status while the freight is lost, held or already delivered. Nothing fires in an event-driven design, because nothing happened on the wire, so the layer has to treat absence as a signal.

Push delivery can lose events by design, and the Subscription Callback API allows it: "The Publisher MAY let Pending Messages expire after a period." A subscriber offline past the retention window never receives them through push. It also names freeze attacks, where delivery is deliberately withheld.

A sound detection design gives each canonical status an expected window for the next event, set per mode and lane from the platform's own event history. When a shipment exceeds its window, the layer triggers a targeted carrier poll. If the poll returns nothing new, the shipment becomes a silent-shipment exception routed to operations with its last known status and location.

A quiet shipment must be told apart from a broken integration. Per-carrier event volume is tracked against its own baseline, with the last successful poll, webhook and EDI file. When a whole carrier goes quiet, that is an integration incident, and per-shipment alerts for it are suppressed so operations is not flooded by one cause.

Ocean shipments get a second detector from planned times. When the latest estimate for a milestone moves past its planned time, or the planned time passes with no actual event, the layer raises a delay exception the carrier never sent. For T&T 2.2 this populates the exception row of the mapping table.

Rate and Label Normalization

The outbound side mirrors tracking: one canonical request, one adapter per carrier. A normalized rate request carries origin, destination, handling units with dimensions and weight in explicit units, declared value and service level. The normalized response keeps money as integer minor units with a currency code and lists base charge, each surcharge and taxes as separate lines, so carrier quotes compare like with like and a later invoice audit matches line by line.

Road freight adds an outbound EDI path. X12 scopes transaction set 204, Motor Carrier Load Tender, to full truckloads, and the carrier accepts or declines it with a 990, Response to a Load Tender. LTL bill of lading data, which X12 excludes from the 204, travels in a 211, Motor Carrier Bill of Lading. Either way the carrier bills with a 210, Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice, which the adapter maps into the same charge lines as a rate response so the invoice audit compares billed charges with quoted ones.

Labels are generated through the adapter and stored with the carrier-assigned tracking number, the key that links later events to the shipment. A voided label enters the canonical stream as a cancellation event.

Outbound calls tend to fail at peak, when a carrier's rate or label API slows down or starts rate limiting. Label requests therefore go through a queue with bounded, idempotent retries and a circuit breaker per carrier, so a failing carrier is paused rather than hammered. Where the business allows, rate shopping falls back to an alternate carrier while that circuit is open.

EDI 856 ASN and the GS1 SSCC

Status messages say where freight is, and the advance ship notice says what is inside. In X12 that is transaction set 856, Ship Notice/Manifest, described on the X12 transaction sets page: "The transaction set enables the sender to describe the contents and configuration of a shipment in various levels of detail and provides an ordered flexibility to convey information." Its segment structure is a separate subject.

Carrier events join the ASN through the handling-unit identifier. GS1 defines it on its SSCC page: "Serial Shipping Container Code can be used by companies to identify a logistic unit, which can be any combination of trade items packaged together for storage and/ or transport purposes; for example a case, pallet or parcel."

The GS1 SSCC Executive Summary ties the identifier to the notice: "This information can be communicated via a Despatch Advice or Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) prior to the logistic unit’s arrival." Structurally, an SSCC is 18 digits: an extension digit, a GS1 Company Prefix and a serial reference of variable lengths, then a check digit. In the canonical model the SSCC is the handling-unit identifier on the ASN record and on every carrier event that reports it, and the layer validates its check digit on ingestion.

Build or Buy: Criteria Without a Product to Sell

Multi-carrier connectivity is sold as a service, so the question is which parts the platform must own. We recommend weighing the criteria below, none of which favors building by default.

1. Carrier mix. A handful of parcel carriers with standard APIs gains little from building. LTL EDI with specific trading partners, regional carriers or ocean feeds is where to check a single connectivity provider for gaps.
2. Ownership of the canonical model. A bought service returns its own normalized statuses. Without a platform-owned model on top, downstream logic couples to the provider's vocabulary and any switch becomes a migration.
3. Mapping turnaround. When a carrier changes a status or field, a service makes the platform wait for the provider, while an in-house layer needs the capacity and recorded test traffic to respond quickly.
4. Access to raw payloads. Replaying events after a mapping fix and auditing a disputed delivery both need the carrier's original payloads, and a service that exposes only normalized data takes both options away, along with any later attempt to train a delay model on the platform's own history.
5. Latency, volume and data residency. Peak event volume, expected notification latency and where shipment data may be processed are cheap to state up front and expensive to discover later.
6. Exit cost. Leaving a service means at least rebuilding its mappings.

One workable outcome is a hybrid: bought connectivity for the long tail of parcel carriers, direct adapters for the few carriers and EDI partners that carry most volume. The canonical model, pipeline and silence detection stay in-house either way. The wider cost and team picture is in the logistics software development guide.

How Pharos Production Helps

Pharos Production can design and build a carrier integration layer as part of a logistics software development project, covering the canonical shipment event model, per-carrier adapters for REST APIs, X12 EDI and DCSA Track and Trace, an idempotent pipeline with out-of-order handling and silence detection for shipments no carrier is reporting on. Where the model needs to extend through ASN and SSCC handling into warehouse and order systems, that work connects to our supply chain software development practice.

Sources: Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), Track & Trace standard page and standard documentation; DCSA, Interface Standard for Track and Trace 2.2, Event Structure Definitions 2.2 and Subscription Callback API 1.0; DCSA-OpenAPI repository on GitHub, T&T v2, T&T v3 and event domain 2.0.0; X12, transaction sets (214 and 856 quoted; 204, 210, 211, 990 and 997 cited by title); GS1, SSCC and SSCC Executive Summary. Read 28 September 2026. Engineering guidance, not a conformance statement for any standard.

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• How should the carrier integration layer hand canonical events to the rest of the platform?

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  Through a durable event stream partitioned by shipment, so every consumer sees one shipment's events in a consistent order, plus a query API for the current status and full timeline. The stream can redeliver after a consumer failure, so consumers deduplicate on the platform event id just as the layer deduplicates carrier input.

• How is the DCSA version a carrier actually serves confirmed?

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  Per carrier, during onboarding. The adapter records the version each connection declares and contract tests run against that carrier's own sample events.

  Any field that does not match the declared version fails onboarding instead of surfacing later in production.

• Can EDI 214 status codes be mapped without the X12 implementation guide?

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  Not reliably. The shipment status codes come from an X12 code list licensed by X12, and each trading partner's own 214 implementation guide states which of them it sends and what it means by them.

  Mapping from code lists copied off unofficial websites ignores partner-specific usage and can leave a platform reporting a delivery that never happened.

• What drives the effort of onboarding one more carrier?

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  Mostly the carrier, not the layer. The interface family matters first, since a REST API, an EDI trading partnership and a DCSA feed each need different setup.

  After that come the availability of real sample payloads and a test environment, how ambiguously the carrier's statuses map onto the canonical list and whether someone on the carrier side is available to run test exchanges before cutover.

• Does the carrier integration layer calculate ETAs?

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  No. It records the estimates carriers send as estimated events together with the time each was created. A separate prediction service reads the timeline and publishes its own estimates as a distinct source, so a predicted ETA never overwrites what the carrier actually reported.

• Should customers see every raw carrier status?

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  Usually not. Customers see the canonical status and a readable timeline, while the raw carrier code and payload stay available to support and operations staff.

  Showing raw codes exposes each carrier's vocabulary to end users and makes the customer experience change whenever a carrier changes its wording.

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