"Residential Delivery Indicator (RDI)"
Residential Delivery Indicator is used for rate shoppers, shipping rate analysis and shipping vendor selection. The system provides you with a flag indicating whether the address is considered a business or residential address. Unlike the USPS®, third party carriers typically charge delivery accessorial charges for residential addresses. The use of the file assists mailers in determining the best and most cost effective shipping method. RDI data must be licensed directly from the USPS®. Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software is a certified interface vendor and can read and access the RDI file.
RDI is available for users of CODE-1 Plus™ and DPV™ subscribers. RDI can also be embedded within other software products in the partnership program.
- Parcel shippers rate shopping
- Delivery accessorial surcharges
- Address-type indicators
- PO Box or Street Only
Parcel Shippers Rate Shopping
The USPS® program requires that the interface to the RDI file only resides in an environment where rate shopping or rate analysis is performed. Marketers that want to use the data for market analysis or direct marketing efforts are not permitted to use the data for such purposes.
Delivery Accessorial Surcharges
Third party carriers charge clients surcharges based on the characteristics of the package. Surcharges can be as simple as $10 or $15 per address correction or a residential delivery surcharge of approximately $1.40. These fees can be recognized and captured at the time of data entry and address coding.
Address-type Indicators
The RDI tables can return intelligence, whether the address is considered a pure residential, business or mixed business/residential address.
PO Box or Street Only
This permits 3rd party carriers that only require physical street addresses to preserve the street address in a dual address situation to maintain the integrity of the physical mailing address.