USPS ADDRESS MANAGEMENT

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USPS ADDRESS MANAGEMENT

• Ruth Jones
• March 10, 2008

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Defining A Quality Address

• A USPS Quality Address Contains
• Complete and correct elements that comply with
  USPS Address Management System standards.
  
• Allows automated sortation to
• Intended delivery point
• Specified recipient
• Without requiring the use of Delivery Force
  Knowledge to complete delivery

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Address Quality

• The database currently contains
• 147 million possible deliveries
• 270,000 delivery routes
• 42,000 ZIP Codes
• 37,000 facilities nationwide
• 8 terabytes of address data

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Factors Impacting Address Quality

• Growth
• 2 million new delivery points per year
• 911/LACSLink address conversion (not a move)
• Five million records

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Postal Service Adds 2 Million Addresses Annually

• USPS accepts new addresses from various levels of
  addressing authorities
  
• AMS enters theses addresses through various
  methods of data capture
  
• Significant opportunity to reduce the cost and
  improve the time frame for new addressing
  
• A standardized process can improve address
  quality and assist controlling the cost of new
  delivery through Growth Management.

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The Challenge

• How can the Postal Service implement a
  standardized process to obtain addresses from
  thousands of external addressing authorities
  including electronic formats?

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Growth Management

• Electronic file processing to AMS
• FY 2008 goals
• McGraw Hill Dodge Report Addresses
• Acceptance of Geographic Information System (GIS)
  shape files from Addressing Authorities
  
• Participation in the National States Geographic
  Information Council (NSGIC)
  

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Growth Management

• Data Exchange
• USPS - Assist Addressing Authorities with
  addressing standards and a standardized process
  flow of data from local planning authorities to
  the USPS.
• In return USPS provides relevant data to the
  Addressing Authority
  
• ZIP 4
• Geographical reference
• Municipality data
• Carrier route information

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Growth Management

• Data Exchange Benefits
• Data Exchange especially helpful for 911
  conversions
  
• Assist Addressing Authorities when establishing
  services
  
• Emergency services
• Other delivery options
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Tax information
• Sale zones which may differ from delivery options

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Management Tools

• FYTD 2008
• Added 133,509 missing delivery points
• Added over 10,000 alternate addresses
• Added over 6200 missing LACS
• Corrected over 4700 AMS addresses
• Corrected and/or refined over 20,000 ZIP 4
  ranges
  
• Added over 1.1 million business names
  (SuiteLink)
  

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Thank You! ruth.jones_at_usps.gov
www.usps.com www.ribbs.usps.com