How do you post a unique container id to Presort output file?

I need to output a field that will post the unique container id info that matches the Container ID field (bytes 14-19) in the Mail.dat .csm file? There is no AP output field for this, but i am wondering if anyone knows how to build a filter using other AP fields.
The end result should be a number that identifies each individual container in a specific mailing with a unique number regardless of container type (i.e. pallet or sack). So if there was one pallet and one sack in the mailing and the pallet was sorted first, the pallet would be marked "P0001" and the sack would be "S0002".
The search and replace work around for this is very time consuming so if anyone has suggestions please let me know.
I logged a support case about this almost a year and a half ago and was told that an enhancement request had been made (ADAPT01346998), but as far as i know this functionality has not been added.

Bing, you are a genius! It worked like a charm. I have been struggling with this for so long and when i logged a case about it support was unable to help me...the response i got was "I checked with the programmers and they have informed me that field is not controlled by any jobfile parameter. Presort generates it internally so it is unique in the whole mail.dat set. So in a nutshell there is no ap field that we can post this information to."
This will save me a ton of time. Thanks!!!!

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