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Address Type

The Address Type field identifies the physical type of mail box that will receive mail at the address.

Postal authorities around the world use a common set of alphabetic codes to represent address types. However, differences in address type assignment exist between countries. Also, the logic within the processing modes in address verification can result in differences in assignment of address type values across the modes.

The following table describes a set of address type values that apply in many countries:

B. The address identifies a building.

F. The address identifies an organization.

G. The address is a general delivery address. In a general delivery address, the postal code and the recipient data identify the address.

H. The address identifies a high-rise building. The address contains subbuilding elements such as apartment or suite.

L. The address post code identifies the organization as a large volume receiver. The reference data adds or validates the organization name.

Address

verification

can determine that the address is a large volume receiver in one of the following ways:

The address post code identifies the organization as a large volume receiver.

The reference data does not contain street or building information.

N. The address reference data matches the input address data to locality level, but the reference database does not contain street information for the address.

The verifier

returns the address with N as the address type value.

P. The address identifies a Post Office Box or a delivery service.

R. The address is a rural route/highway contract address.

S. The address identifies a street. S is the default address type. If

verification

cannot determine the address type from the address data, it returns the default value.

U. Unidentified. The address is not valid, and

verification

does not assign an address type.

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