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The Addresses API validates and corrects address information, eliminating errors, improving package delivery service and package pricing. This suite of APIs provides different utilities for addressing components. The ZIP Code lookup finds valid ZIP Codes for a City and State. The City/State lookup provides the valid cities and states for a provided ZIP Code. The Address Standardization API validates and standardizes USPS domestic addresses, city and state names, and ZIP Codes in accordance with USPS addressing standards. The USPS address standard includes the ZIP+4, signifying a USPS delivery point, given a street address, a city and a state.
The API supports customers scheduling a carrier to pick up your packages on the next USPS delivery day (Monday through Saturday, excluding holidays) for free. Carrier Pickup is available for sending packages using Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, First Class Package Service Commercial, international delivery services, or for returned merchandise. You are able check availability, schedule, change, cancel and inquire on a carrier pickup.
The Intelligent Mail Container barcode (IMcb) provides visibility at the mail aggregate level. It is used on mailer-generated pallet labels to uniquely identify pallets and similar containers (i.e. All Purpose Containers, hampers, pallet boxes, etc.) in addition to identifying the mail owner and, it provides a link between the electronic mailing record and the physical mail aggregate.
The Domestic Labels API supports creation of domestic shipping labels with Intelligent Mail Package Barcodes (IMpb). Along with label and barcode creation in PDF, TIFF, SVG, JPG, ZPL203DPI, or ZPL300DPI format, this API validates addresses, confirms product availability, calculates postage, and generates the required Shipping Services File in accordance with USPS Publication 199.
This API provides Domestic USPS product pricing based on the characteristics of what is being shipped for Parcel Select, Parcel Select Lightweight, Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, USPS Ground Advantage, Library Mail, Media Mail, and Bound Printed Matter. Given inputs, such as origin and destination ZIP Codes, package weight and dimensions, processing category, destination rate indicator, price type, and desired Mail Class and Extra Services, this API will return the price of postage.
The International Labels API supports creation of international shipping labels. Along with label and barcode creation in TIFF and PDF format, this API confirms product availability, calculates postage, and generates the required Shipping Services File in accordance with USPS Publication 199.
The International Prices API provides International USPS product pricing based on the characteristics of what is being shipped for Global Express Guaranteed, Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International, and First-Class Package International. Given inputs, such as origin and destination ZIP Codes, package weight and dimensions, processing category, destination rate indicator, price type, and desired Mail Class and Extra Services, this API will return the price of postage and Extra Services.
This API supports returning destination entry facilities (i.e., drop off locations) for a given ZIP Code to enable Parcel Select Destination Entry, USPS Connect, and Parcel Select Lightweight. This API also provides additional information about working hours, delivery type, mail class, shape, palletization, and facility type.
Once you sign-in to the API developer portal, you may get the OAuth credentials you will need to register your application 'Add App'. See "Getting Started" for further information about: signing-in, registering your application, and additional USPS account credentials you will need to integrate your application with USPS APIs.
The API supports registration of new companies to USPS. This API will create a new customer registration ID and mailer ID if the customer is not known to USPS. If USPS has a record of the company, the API will not create a new customer registration ID or mailer ID.
Shipment Confirmation Acceptance Notice(SCAN) form allows integrators to link multiple domestic and international labels through one Electronic File Number (EFN) and physical SCAN Form (PS Form 5630 or 3152).
One of the many challenges that social science researchers and practitioners face is the difficulty of relating United States Postal Service (USPS) ZIP codes to Census Bureau geographies. There are valuable data available only at the ZIP code level that, when combined with demographic data tabulated at various Census geography levels, could open up new avenues of exploration.
While some acceptable methods of combining ZIP codes and Census geography exist, they have limitations. To provide additional avenues for merging these data, PD&R has released the HUD-USPS Crosswalk Files. These unique files are derived from data in the quarterly USPS Vacancy Data. They originate directly from the USPS; are updated quarterly, making them highly responsive to changes in ZIP code configurations; and reflect the locations of both business and residential addresses. The latter feature is of particular interest to housing researchers because many of the phenomena that they study are based on housing unit or address. By using an allocation method based on residential addresses rather than by area or by population, analysts can take into account not only the spatial distribution of population, but also the spatial distribution of residences. This enables a slightly more nuanced approach to allocating data between disparate geographies. Please note that the USPS Vacancy Data is constructed from ZIP+4 data that contains records of addresses, it does not contain ZIP+4 data that are associated with ZIP codes that exclusively serve Postal Office Boxes (PO Boxes). As a result, ZIP codes that only serve PO Boxes will not appear in the files.
Though often used for mapping, spatial analysis, and data aggregation careful attention is required when interpreting ZIP Code data relative to other administrative geographies. The following article demonstrates how to more effectively use the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) United States Postal Service ZIP Code Crosswalk Files when working with disparate geographies.
This article demonstrates how to use a GIS to process ZIP Code Crosswalk Files. In this article, calls for service from New York City's Open Data Portal are estimated at the county-level and census tract-level. This article also includes an accuracy analysis.
When a ZIP is split by any of the other geographies, that ZIP code is duplicated in the crosswalk file. In the example below, ZIP code 03870 is split by two different Census tracts, 33015066000 and 33015071000, which appear in the tract column. The ratio of residential addresses in the first ZIP-Tract record to the total number of residential addresses in the ZIP code is .0042 (.42%). The remaining residential addresses in that ZIP (99.58%) fall into the second ZIP-Tract record. So, for example, if one wanted to allocate data from ZIP code 03870 to each Census tract located in that ZIP code, one would multiply the number of observations in the ZIP code by the residential ratio for each tract associated with that ZIP code. Note that the sum of each ratio column for each distinct ZIP code may not always equal 1.00 (or 100%) due to rounding issues.
When a Census tract, county or CBSA is split by a ZIP code, that tract, county or CBSA code is duplicated in the crosswalk file. In the example below tract 01001020200 is split by two different ZIP codes, 36008 and 36067, which appear in the ZIP column. The ratio of residential addresses in the first tract-ZIP record to the total number of residential addresses in the tract is .0272 (2.72%). The remaining residential addresses in that tract (97.28%) fall into the second tract-ZIP record. So, for example, if one wanted to allocate data from Census tract 01001020200 to the ZIP code level, one would multiply the number of observations in the Census tract by the residential ratio for each ZIP code associated with that Census tract. Note that the sum of each ratio column for each distinct ZIP code may not always equal 1.00 (or 100%) due to rounding issues.
HUD is unable to geocode a small number of records that we receive from the USPS. As a result, there may be some 5-digit USPS ZIP codes that will not be included in these crosswalk files. Less than 1% of the total number of active 5-digit ZIP codes in the country are excluded from the current version of the crosswalk files. Since the HUD geocoding base map is updated regularly, an effort is made to re-geocode these records with every new quarter of data. As a result, these crosswalk files will be generated on a quarterly basis and may differ slightly from quarter to quarter.
No. Unfortunately, the underlying data used to create the Crosswalk Files does not contain USPS Recommended City Names. However, Recommended City Names can be searched on the USPS ZIP Code Lookup page. Please note that Recommended City Names do not match Census defined names, please see Misalignment Between ZIP Codes and Municipal Boundaries: A Problem for Public Health for an analysis.
ZIP Codes have the potential to intersect with multiple geographies. Each record in the Crosswalk File represents a geography that intersects with a particular ZIP Code. For example, if you are reviewing a ZIP to County file, if a ZIP Code appears twice then it intersects with two counties. The ratio fields describe the percentage of the respective addresses that fall in both that ZIP Code and each county.
I have been purchasing shipping via ebay and downloading QR codes to take to USPS to print the label since this option began. Suddenly this is no longer working.
I sold two items. For each one I purchased a shipping label via ebay, and downloaded the QR code (like I have done MANY times before). I packed up the items, and took them to USPS, went to the window for QR code to be scanned, and the label printed. NEITHER worked. The employee said the code was invalid.
Has something changed?