Unison:US Address Verification

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The Unison by Melissa Address Object cleanses contact data.

Input Fields

This section displays the possible inputs for the Address Service. An address and ZIP code are required.

Last Name

The last name of the individual associated with the address.

Company

The company or organization.

Address

The first address line.

Address 2

The second address line. This is optional and can contain a suite or a different secondary address, like a P.O. Box.

Suite

Sub-Premises. The suite number.

City

Locality. The city name.

State/Province

Administrative Area. The state or province name.

Zip/Postal Code

The five-digit ZIP Code, the first five digits of a ZIP+4, or a full nine-digit ZIP+4.

Plus 4

The last four digits of a ZIP+4.

Country Code

The country code.

Urbanization (Puerto Rico)

Only used for addresses in Puerto Rico. This is used to break ties between similar addresses in the same Postal Code.

Output Fields

This section displays the possible outputs for the Address Service. Select the on/off toggle to enable/disable the output of a field.

Company

The company or organization.

Address

The first address line.

Address 2

The second address line. This can contain a suite or a different secondary address, like a P.O. Box.

City

Locality. The city name.

State/Province

Administrative Area. The state/province name.

Zip/Postal Code

The Zip or postal code.

Country Code

The standard code of the country.

Address Key

Returns a unique key for the current address.

Melissa Address Key (MAK)

(MAK) A unique key assigned to an address record.

Melissa Address Key Base

A unique key assigned to the base address of a complex with apartments or suites.

Geo County FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards codes used nationally to numerically identify a specific county or political jurisdiction.

County Name

The name of the county.

Time Zone

The name of the time zone associated with the time zone code.

Time Zone Code

A three-letter code for the locality (city) of the region associated with the phone number.

Address Result Codes

Returned result codes for the address.

Parsed Address Fields

Adds additional parsed fields regarding the address.

Address Range

The street number.

Pre-Directional

Street Pre-Directional, Thoroughfare Pre-Directional. This is any directional indicators that precede the street name. The directionals are returned as one- or two-character abbreviations. If the input data contained "Southwest", it would be shortened to "SW".

Street Name

Thoroughfare Name. Only the street name, minus the suffixes or directionals. For "SW Main Street", this would return "Main".

Suffix

Trailing Type. The standard abbreviations for the street types: "RD", "ST", "AVE", "BLVD", etc.

Post-Directional

This is any directional indicators that follow the street name. The directionals are returned as one- or two-character abbreviations. If the input data contained "Southwest", it would be shortened to "SW".

Suite Name

Sub-Premises Name. The descriptive portion of the secondary address: "SUITE", "APT", "UNIT", etc.

Suite Range

Sub-Premises Range. The numeric portion of the secondary address.

Private Mailbox Name

The descriptive portion of the private mailbox number. A private mailbox, or PMB, is a secondary address associated with a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (CMRA).

Because the CMRA may itself be located in a suite, such an address may have both a suite number and a PMB number.

The name portion of the PMB will normally be either "#" or "PMB".

Private Mailbox Range

The numeric portion of the private mailbox number.

Route Service

The route service number for a Canadian address. Route Service is typically used to designate an address in a rural area.

Lock Box

The lock box number for a Canadian address. Lock boxes are similar to PO Boxes and the terms are often used interchangeably.

Delivery Installation

The delivery installation information for a Canadian address. The delivery installation is the Canada Post facility that services the address.

Extra Information

This is any text from the street address column that does not fit into one of the above categories.

Additional Address Fields

Adds fields for parsed data from the address.

Suite

Sub-Premises. This is the formatted suite information.

City Abbreviation

Locality Abbreviation. The official city abbreviation the Post Office™ has associated with the city or municipality name, if any is available.

Private Mailbox

The private mailbox. This will be populated if the primary address was identified as a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (CMRA) and the secondary address information is present. This would also be populated if the secondary address information contains the string "PMB", thus identifying the address as a private mailbox.

Urbanization

Dependent Locality. This is used to break ties between similar addresses in Puerto Rico. The urbanization name tells the address checking logic which "neighborhood" to look in if more than one likely address candidate is found.

If just one address is found, the address checking logic can correct the address and return the urbanization name.

Plus 4

The four-digit extension from the ZIP + 4®. If this column is not mapped the Plus4 will be appended to the ZIP column.

Residential/Business Delivery Indication

This is a one-character code indicating whether the submitted address is "R", a residence; "B", a business; or "U", the status is unknown.

Delivery Indication

Delivery Indicator indicates whether a given address is residential or business. Since some shipping rates are different for residential or business addresses, this information can potentially save a great deal of money.

Delivery Point Check Digit

The delivery point, when combined with the check digit, is a three-digit number that combined with the ZIP + 4, generates a unique number for each address in that ZIP + 4. This number is used to generate barcodes, so if you plan you use this address data for commercial mailing, it would be necessary to map an output column for this information.

Carrier Route

This is a four-character code that indicates which mail carrier delivers to the input address.

The first character of this Carrier Route is always alphabetic and the last three characters are numeric. For example, "R001" or "C027" would be typical carrier routes. The alphabetic letter indicates the type of delivery associated with this address.

Zip Type Code

Postal Code Type The type of ZIP Code can indicate a specialized address, such as military or PO Box complexes.

Address Type Code

This is a one-character code indicating the type of address that was processed.

Address Type Description

This is a text description of the address type code.

CMRA

This indicates if the primary input address is a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (CMRA), such as the UPS Store® or similar private mailbox business location.

eLot Number

This number indicates where the current address falls in the delivery order within the ZIP + 4®.

The eLot columns may be required if you are sending the data on to be presorted for mailing using USPS® Standard Mail® rates.

eLot Order

The eLot Order returns the letters "A" or "D" to indicate whether the Post Office™ delivers mail within the ZIP + 4® in ascending eLot Number order or descending.

Therefore, if the eLot Number is 1 and the eLot Order is "D", then the address is typically the last delivery of the day.

LACS

Some rural route addresses are converted to city-style addresses to allow emergency services (ambulance, police, fire, and so on) to find these addresses faster.

LACS Link Indicator

The LACSLink service matches the old address with the updated address and corrects it as part of the address verification process.

Not using LACSLink processing will speed up processing, but the Component will not update addresses that have changed.

LACSLink processing is required to generate a CASS Form 3553.

LACS Link Return Code

This is a return code for the status of the LACS Link service.

Early Warning System

EWS. USPS System that flags addresses when they are scheduled for inclusion in the USPS database but are not added yet. The addresses are typically new high rises, or new housing subdivisions that are being assigned deliverable mail addresses.

DPV Footnotes

The DPV footnotes indicate the level of matching between the current address and the USPS’s DPV database. The footnote may be up to six characters long.

DPV Address Status Codes

Code	Description
AA	Input Address Matched to the ZIP + 4 file
A1	Input Address Not Matched to the ZIP + 4 file
BB	DPV matched (all components)
CC	Primary Number Match – Secondary present but invalid
F1	Address Was Coded to a Military Address
G1	Address Was Coded to a General Delivery Address
M1	Primary Number missing
M3	Primary Number invalid
N1	Primary Number Match – Secondary missing
P1	Missing PO, RR or HC Box number
P3	Invalid PO, RR or HC Box number
R1	DPV matched to CMRA – PMB number not present
RR	DPV matched to CMRA
U1	Address Was Coded to a Unique ZIP Code

Geographic Information

Adds fields for geographic information regarding the address.

Latitude

Returns the geocoded latitude for the address.

Longitude

Returns the geocoded longitude for the address.

GeoCoder Result Codes

Returned result codes for the geocoding portion of the address.

GeoCoder Place Name

The official Census Bureau name for the location indicated by the Place Code.

GeoCoder Place Code

The Census Bureau Place Code for the physical location of the input address. This information is useful when the boundaries of the ZIP + 4 overlap city limits.

County

Sub Administrative Area. The county name.

Address County FIPS

Sub Administrative Area FIPS Code. The 5-digit County FIPS code. The first two digits indicate the state while the last three digits indicate the county within the state.

Congressional District

The 2-digit code indicating the address's congressional district.

Time Zone

The name of the time zone where the address is located.

Time Zone Code

The one- or two-digit number code for the time zone where the verified input address is located. The number also indicates the number of hours that the time zone is behind UTC/GMT. In other words, Eastern Standard Time has a time zone code of 5, indicating that the Eastern time zone is five hours behind UTC/GMT.

This number does not indicate differences due to daylight savings time.

Census Details

Adds fields for census information regarding the address.

CBSA Code

A five-digit code for the specific Census Bureau CBSA (Core-Based Statistical Area).

CBSA Level

The CBSA code level. If present, the CBSA Level will be Metropolitan or Micropolitan.

CBSA Title

The CBSA Title describing the CBSA code.

CBSA Division Code

A code representing the CBSA division associated with the address.

CBSA Division Level

The CBSA Division code level. If present, the CBSA Division Level will be Metropolitan or Micropolitan.

CBSA Division Title

The CBSA Division Title describing the CBSA Division code.

Census Block

This is a 4-digit string indicating the Census Block number associated with the address. Census Blocks are the smallest geographic area for which the Bureau of the Census collects information.

Census Tract

This is a 4 to 6-digit string containing the Census Tract number associated with the address. Census Tracts are small subdivisions of the county.

Census Key

Returns a 15 digit string containing the concatenated County FIPS, Census Tract and Census Block.

Address Task Settings

Use the Address Task Settings to control USPS preferred city names, diacritics, and CASS forms.

Countries

This is locked to US and Canada. To select other countries, use the Global Address Cleansing Task.

Use USPS Preferred City Names

For every city, there is an official name that is preferred by the U.S. Postal Service. There may be one or more unofficial or "vanity" names in use. Normally, the Component allows you to verify addresses using known vanity names. If this box is checked, the Component will substitute the preferred city name for any vanity name when it verifies an address.

Diacritic Mode

This controls how the Component will handle diacritic characters in French words for addresses located in Quebec. The default setting is for the Component to return data with diacritic characters if they were already present, otherwise not. The other settings are to always return data from Quebec addresses with diacritic characters, even if they were not present in the input data, or to always replace the diacritic characters if they were present in the input data.

Create CASS form

US Only. Enable this to generate a CASS Form 3553 after processing all records.

This requires the address information boxes be filled out with the contact information for the company that owns the data being processed.