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Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards
Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards
Introduction
11 Background
111 Purpose
112 Scope
113 Additional Benefits
12 Overview
121 List Maintenance
122 List Correction
123 Updates
124 Address Output
125 Deliverability
2 Postal Addressing Standards
21 General
211 Standardized Delivery Address Line and Last Line
212 Format
213 Secondary Address Unit Designators
214 Attention Line
215 Dual Addresses
22 Last Line of the Address
221 City Names
222 Punctuation
223 Spelling of City Names
224 Format
225 Military Addresses
226 Preprinted Delivery Point Barcodes
23 Delivery Address Line
231 Components
232 Street Name
233 Directionals
234 Suffixes
235 Numeric Street Names
236 Corner Addresses
237 Highways
238 Military Addresses
239 Department of State Addresses
24 Rural Route Addresses
241 Format
242 Leading Zero
243 Hyphens
244 Designations RFD and RD
245 Additional Designations
246 ZIP+4
25 Highway Contract Route Addresses
251 Format
252 Leading Zero
253 Hyphens
254 Star Route Designations
255 Additional Designations
256 ZIP+4
26 General Delivery Addresses
261 Format
262 ZIP Code or ZIP+4
27 United States Postal Service Addresses
271 Format
272 ZIP Code or ZIP+4
28 Post Office Box Addresses
281 Format
282 Leading Zero
283 Designations
284 Private Mailbox Addresses
29 Puerto Rico Addresses
291 Format
292 Urbanization
293 Common Translations
294 Spanish Directionals
295 Delivery Address Line
3 Business Addressing Standards
31 General
311 Joint Industry and Postal Service Standardization Efforts
312 Unique Addressing Issues
313 Business Address Standardization Factors
314 Purpose of Standardization
32 Scope of Standardization
321 Benefits
322 Business-to-Business List Maintenance
323 Business-to-Business List Correction
324 Business-to-Business List Updates
325 Business-to-Business Address Output
326 Business-to-Business Deliverability
34 Line Removal Guidelines
341 Sample Business Address Format
342 Primary Considerations
343 Address Line Removal
35 Address Data Element Compression Guidelines
351 Removal and Deletion Restrictions
352 Abbreviations
353 Right-to-Left Evaluation
354 Special Characters
355 Remove Certain Words
356 Wrapping
357 Line #9 Compression
358 Standard State Name Abbreviations
359 Repetitive Word Removal
3510 Short-Ending Substitution
3511 Last Word Abbreviations
3512 Vowel Removal
Appendix A
A1 Readability
A2 Address Types
A3 International Addresses
A31 General Requirements
A32 Canada Only
Appendix B
Appendix C
C1 Street Suffix Abbreviations
C2 Secondary Unit Designators
Appendix D
D1 Hyphenated Address Ranges
D2 Grid Style Addresses
D3 Alphanumeric Combinations of Address Ranges
D4 Fractional Addresses
D5 Spanish and Other Foreign Words
Appendix E
E1 Format
E11 Determining Address Ranges
E12 Alphanumeric Ranges
E13 Fractional Addresses
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
I1 General
I11 Complete Address
I12 Standardized Address
I2 Address Formats
I21 Residential Addresses
I22 Apartment Buildings and Condominiums
I3 Descriptive Spanish Words
I4 Directionals
I5 Delivery Address Line
I51 Components
Appendix J
J1 Address Formats
J2 Physical Addresses
J3 Post Office Box Addresses
Postal Addressing Standards
Postal Addressing Standards
May 2015
1 Introduction
11 Background
12 Overview
13 Address Information Systems Products and Services
2 Postal Addressing Standards
21 General
22 Last Line of the Address
23 Delivery Address Line
24 Rural Route Addresses
25 Highway Contract Route Addresses
26 General Delivery Addresses
27 United States Postal Service Addresses
28 Post Office Box Addresses
29 Puerto Rico Addresses
3 Business Addressing Standards
31 General
32 Scope of Standardization
33 Defining Business–to–Business Data Elements
34 Line Removal Guidelines
35 Address Data Element Compression Guidelines
Appendix A
A1 Readability
A2 Address Types
A3 International Addresses
Appendix B
Appendix C
C1 Street Suffix Abbreviations
C2 Secondary Unit Designators
Appendix D
D1 Hyphenated Address Ranges
D2 Grid Style Addresses
D3 Alphanumeric Combinations of Address Ranges
D4 Fractional Addresses
D5 Spanish and Other Foreign Words
Appendix E
E1 Format
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
I1 General
I2 Address Formats
I3 Descriptive Spanish Words
I4 Directionals
I5 Delivery Address Line
Appendix J
J1 Address Formats
J2 Physical Addresses
J3 Post Office Box Addresses
