WD2000: USPS Changes Postal Bar Code Requirements for Multi-Unit Buildings

• Microsoft Word 2000
• Microsoft Direct Mail Manager for Windows

SUMMARY

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has changed the way postal bar codes for multi-unit buildings are calculated effective August 1, 1998; however, neither Microsoft Word 2000 nor Direct Mail Manager includes these changes.

MORE INFORMATION

The delivery point bar code for most addresses in multi-unit buildings is now calculated using a formula on the secondary number (such as an apartment or suite number) instead of using the last two numbers of the street address, such as all other postal codes use.

The changes to postal bar code calculations have no impact on the ability to ascertain or create postal bar codes in Microsoft Word 2000. In addition, the postal service states that the absence of this secondary information in address records does not affect rate eligibility or coding rates for address lists.

For more information describing this change by the United States Postal Service, please see the USPS August 1998 Bulletin located at the following URL:

http://www.usps.gov/business/mrc/mrc0898.pdf

Additional query words: barcode DMM

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo 

Last Reviewed: May 13, 1999