Creating Delivery Point Barcodes

A Delivery Point Barcode (DPBC) is a POSTNET™ barcode representation of the address. It consists of 62 bars with beginning and ending frame bars and five bars each for the ZIP + 4® Code, a value calculated based on the street address number, and a correction digit. The DPBC allows automated sortation of letter mail to the carrier level in walk sequence. ValidateMailingAddressUSCAN generates the data you need to assemble a DPBC.

Note: Delivery Point Barcodes are available for U.S. addresses only. For more information on Delivery Point Barcodes, see http://www.usps.com.

To generate the data needed to assemble a DPBC, Option.OutputRecordType must contain P. For more information on Option.OutputRecordType, see Output Data Options.

Table 1. Delivery Point Barcode Output

Response Element

Description

PostalBarCode

The delivery point portion of the delivery point barcode.

USBCCheckDigit

Check-digit portion of the 11-digit delivery point barcode.

To assemble a DPBC you concatenate the values found in the ValidateMailingAddressUSCAN output as follows:

PostalCode.Base + PostalCode.Addon + PostalBarcode + USBCCheckDigit

For example, if you have the following:

  • PostalCode.Base = 49423
  • PostalCode.Addon = 4506
  • PostalBarcode = 29
  • USBCCheckDigit = 2

The assembled barcode would be:

494234506292