Table of Contents: 3 Business Addressing Standards

3   Business Addressing Standards

31   General

311   Joint Industry and Postal Service Standardization Efforts

312   Unique Addressing Issues

313   Business Address Standardization Factors

313.1   Costly Inefficiencies in the Merge/Purge Process

313.2   Costly Poor Address Hygiene

313.3   Costly Missed Opportunities for Barcoding Discounts

313.4   Costly Non-deliverability

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

33   Defining Business-to-Business Data Elements

34   Line Removal Guidelines

341   Sample Business Address Format

342   Primary Considerations

343   Address Line Removal

343.1   Lines Required for Postal Service Distribution

343.2   Required Lines for Certain Postal Service Programs

343.3   Optional Lines

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