Creating Delivery Point Barcodes - Spectrum_OnDemand - addressing - web_services - 23.1

A Delivery Point Barcode (DPBC) is a POSTNET™ barcode representation of the address. It consists of 62 bars with beginning and ending frame bars and five bars each for the ZIP + 4® Code, a value calculated based on the street address number, and a correction digit. The DPBC allows automated sortation of letter mail to the carrier level in walk sequence. Validate MailingAddressUSCAN generates the data you need to assemble a DPBC.

To generate the data needed to assemble a DPBC, select the Include postal information check box on the Output Data Options tab. This will return a variety of data about the address, including data needed to construct DPBCs. For information on the specific data that this option will return, see Postal Data Output.

To generate the data needed to assemble a DPBC, OutputRecordType must contain P. For more information on OutputRecordType, see Output Data Options.

To generate the data needed to assemble a DPBC, Option.OutputRecordType must contain P. For more information on Option.OutputRecordType, see Output Data Options.

To assemble a DPBC you concatenate the values found in the Validate MailingAddressUSCAN output fieldscolumns as follows:

PostalCode.Base + PostalCode.Addon + PostalBarcode + USBCCheckDigit

For example, if you have the following:

• PostalCode.Base = 49423
• PostalCode.Addon = 4506
• PostalBarcode = 29
• USBCCheckDigit = 2

The assembled barcode would be:

494234506292