Status code information indicates whether an address is accurate enough for delivery and describes the result of the verification process.
You can select the following status code fields:
Verification Status Code
Provides a summary of the address verification process and indicates the general quality of the address.
Result Quality
Provides a general estimate of the likelihood that a mail carrier can deliver mail to the address
Match Percentage
Indicates the degree of similarity between the input data and reference data. The value ranges from 0 through 100. Values close to 100% indicate high similarity.
Address Type
Indicates the type of mail box that an address identifies.
Verification Status Codes
The Verification Status Code value summarizes the results of the comparison of the input address to the reference data. The code also summarizes any correction that the mapping makes to the address. Find the field in the Status Codes output group.
The following table describes the Verification Status Code output values:
Status Code
Description
V
The mapping verified all postally relevant elements. The input data matches the reference data for the address.
A
The mapping added one or more relevant address elements to the address.
C
The mapping corrected one or more input address elements to match the address elements in the reference data.
I
The mapping cannot correct the address. The address is not valid.
N
The mapping cannot verify the address because the address is not available in the reference data or the country is not supported.
Result Quality
The Result Quality field provides a general estimate of the likelihood that a mail carrier can deliver mail to an address. Use the result quality value with other status values, such as the verification status code, to evaluate the address quality and deliverability.
The following table describes the result quality values:
Value
Summary
Description
6
Completely confident
Indicates that the verification mapping verified all postally relevant elements.
5
Very confident
Indicates that the verification mapping cannot completely verify the address. For example, the verification mapping may be unable to verify secondary delivery information such as sub-building data. Or, the address might be a high-rise default address.
4
Secondary delivery point not verified
Indicates that the verification mapping can check the primary delivery identifier but cannot verify the secondary delivery information in the address record.
If an input address contains a unique ZIP Code, corrects other input values and returns the address with a result quality value of 4.
3
Primary delivery identifier not verified
Indicates that the verification mapping cannot check the primary delivery identifiers such as house number and P.O. Box number. In countries where the house number information is not available, the primary delivery identifier might be a building name.
2
Delivery information not verified
Indicates that the verification mapping cannot find a match for the input street or delivery service information within the reference data. The address is verified to locality level.
1
Incomplete or contradictory address
Indicates that the verification mapping cannot find a match for the address in the reference data. This can occur when locality information is not available in the reference data or the address includes contradictory postal code data.
0
Not an address
Indicates that the input is not a deliverable address.
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.