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System Analyst
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How Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ Works
Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ is a SERP-recognized address-matching system that improves address quality and mail deliverability, making it possible for you to take advantage of postal discounts offered by the Canada Post Corporation. Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ matches input addresses to the addresses in the Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ database in order to correct your postal information and adds the postal information that could help save you money. This postal information can include
- Postal codes
- Standardized address elements (civic numbers; street directionals, names, and types; unit keywords and identifiers; route designators and indicators; lockbox/bag identifiers)
- Standardized municipality and province abbreviation
Processing results are written to one or more output files, depending on your specifications.
Validation and Correction
Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ can either validate an address or validate and correct an address. Address validation requires the software to properly categorize addresses as either valid or invalid in 98% of the cases. An address is considered valid if it is complete and correct when compared to the CPC postal code address data files.
Address validation and correction takes invalid addresses further and attempts to correct the “correctable” address (those that result in only one given address, based on the provided information) and to reject those that are deemed “non-correctable” (addresses that could result in more than one address, based on the provided information).
Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ saves you money by helping you qualify your mail for the Canada Post Corporation’s accuracy-level discounts. Canadian CODE-1 Plus™ uses information obtained from the CPC address files to ensure that your addresses are correct and standardized according to all conventions. In addition, your mail is delivered more quickly with accurate addresses.
The Matching Process
Canada Post Corporation maintains the CPC postal code address data files, which assign a postal code to every address in Canada. The information needed to validate or correct address lists is contained in these data files, including:
- Address Lookup File
- Municipality Cross-Reference File
- Street Cross-Reference File
- Building, Large Volume Receiver, and Government Names File
During the validation and correction procedures, every address in your file is matched against the data in the CPC postal code address files. If your address matches an address in the CPC files (within allowable standards), then the address in your file is returned as “valid”; otherwise, the address is “invalid.”