NATIONAL CUSTOMER SUPPORT CENTER UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) 2002 - 2003 Cycle March 2002 Translation of Error Codes and Flags Customer No Match Record Translation of Error Codes and Special Flags All categories except L are required. Address-matching software must obtain a minimum accuracy rate of 98% in each required category to obtain CASS Certification. Error Codes 01 5-digit ZIP not match 02 ZIP+4 not match 03 Carrier ID not match 04 City name not match 05 State abbreviation not match 06 Out of range 07 Address is non-deliverable 08 Unique ZIP Code not finest level of code 09 LACS indicator 10 Perfect address 11 General standardization error 12 LOT sequence 13 LOT A/D code 14 RDI 19 Incorrect delivery point barcode (Non-Fatal) 20 Incorrect delivery point barcode 21 PMB 22 Default flag error/Record type error 30 History Record Type S Street P PO Box R Rural Route H Highrise F Firm G General Delivery Standard Address with Elements (Spelled out or Abbreviated) AA Firm Name - Abbreviation AB Firm Name - Noise words AC Firm Name - Address similar to firm name AD Firm Name - Swap firm name and Address field AE Normalized street name AF Street Name - Spelling variation A0 5-digit A1 Dropped 5-digit A4 5-digit with non-mailing name A5 Dropped 5-digit with non-mailing name A8 5digit misspelled city A9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) Standard Address (Includes Reversed Alphanumeric Primary/Secondary Numbers, Reversed Pre/Post Directionals, and Secondary Number Combined with Primary Number) B0 5-digit B1 Dropped 5-digit B2 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) B3 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) B4 5-digit with non-mailing name B5 Dropped 5-digit with non-mailing name B6 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) B7 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) B8 5-digit with misspelled city B9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) BE Normalized street names Standard Address with Post-Directional Dropped or Incorrect CC Post-directional changed to a non-cardinal directional - no match C0 5-digit C1 Dropped 5-digit C2 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) C3 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) C4 5-digit with non-mailing name C5 Dropped 5-digit with non-mailing name C6 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) C7 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) C8 5-digit with misspelled city C9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) Standard Address with Pre-Directional Dropped or Incorrect DC Pre-directional changed to a non-cardinal directional - no match D0 5-digit D1 Dropped 5-digit D2 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) D3 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) D4 5-digit with non-mailing name D5 Dropped 5-digit with non-mailing name D6 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) D7 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) D8 5-digit with misspelled city D9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) Standard Address with Suffix Dropped E0 5-digit E1 Dropped 5-digit E2 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) E3 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) E4 5-digit with non-mailing name E5 Dropped 5-digit with non-mailing name E6 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) E7 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street and non-mailing name (No answer will be bypassed) E8 5-digit with misspelled city E9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) Dual Address F0 Street address F1 Box record F4 Street address with non-mailing name F8 Street address with misspelled city F9 Box record with misspelled city Aliases G0 5-digit - Base G1 5-digit - Alias G2 Dropped 5-digit - Base G3 Dropped 5-digit - Alias G4 5-digit - Out of range (Return input record) Alias/Mult Response H0 5-digit - Base (Return input record) H1 5-digit - Alias (Return input record) Small Town Default I0 Exist in ZIP+4 I1 No match in ZIP+4 P&G records exist (Return input record) I2 General Delivery match in ZIP+4/ G rec only I3 No match in ZIP+4/City State (Return input record) Last Line JA Input city/ZIP Code correspond; exact match in ZIP Code JB Input city/ZIP Code correspond; Input City is non-mailing name, exact match in ZIP Code JC Input city/ZIP Code don't correspond; inexact match in ZIP Code JD Input city/ZIP Code don't correspond; inexact match in city JE Input city equals 5-digit PLL, ZIP+4 PLL is different JI Input city/ZIP Code don't correspond; best candidate is inexact match in finance number, but not in either City or ZIP Code. No Match. J0 5-digit J1 Dropped 5-digit J2 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) J3 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) J4 5-digit with dropped component J5 Dropped 5-digit and component J6 5-digit with dropped component and misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) J7 Dropped 5-digit and component with misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) J8 5-digit with misspelled city J9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) Multiple Response (Double penalty) K0 5-digit (Return input record) K1 Dropped 5-digit (Return input record) K2 5-digit with misspelled street (Return input record) K3 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled street (Return input record) K4 5-digit with dropped or incorrect component (Return input record) K5 Dropped 5-digit and/or incorrect component (Return input record) K6 5-digit with dropped/incorrect component & misspelled street (Return input record) K7 Dropped 5-digit and/or incorrect component with misspelled street (Return input record) K8 5-digit with misspelled city (Return input record) K9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (Return input record) Inexact/Questionable Matching Logic L0 5-digit (No answer will be bypassed) L1 Dropped 5-digit (No answer will be bypassed) Key Elements Also Known As MA Out of range - no match (Normalization required) M0 With 5-digit M1 Dropped 5-digit M8 5-digit with misspelled city M9 Dropped 5-digit with misspelled city (No answer will be bypassed) NDF Position Error (No grading for standardization) N0 5-digit N1 Dropped 5-digit Extra Information O0 5-digit O1 Dropped 5-digit O2 PMB on address line O3 PMB on secondary address line O4 Valid Secondary with '#' sign; exact match O5 PMB number is a valid PO Box Number - no match O6 Invalid secondary with '#' sign; default match O7 Double '#' signs at the end of address line – invalid O8 Double '#' signs at the end of address line, one valid value, one invalid value Seattle Syndrome P0 5-digit P1 Dropped 5-digit Salt Lake Syndrome (No grading for standardization) Q0 5-digit Q1 Dropped 5-digit ZIP Correction R0 Incorrect 5-digit within finance no. R1 Invalid 5-digit R2 Incorrect 5-digit within finance no. and incorrect +4 R4 Incorrect 5-digit within finance no. and blank city/state R5 Incorrect 5-digit not within finance no. Highrise Default or Delivery Point Alternate S0 With 5-digit S4 With 5-digit highrise S5 "Chase the Base" - Delivery point alternate on input, return highrise exact S6 With 5-digit highrise multiple (Return input record) Hyphenated Ranges T1 Numeric alpha no match to numeric/numeric alpha exists T2 Alphanumeric/numeric alpha-transpose to make match T3 Delete hyphen T4 Add hyphen T5 Secy alphanumeric insert hyphen and transpose - default T6 Add alpha to match to numeric range only T7 Add double alphas and validate no match to numeric (Return input record) T8 Transpose alpha to beginning/no match to numeric range (Return input record) TA Recombine hyphenated trailing primary alpha with secondary number (No answer will be bypassed) TB Recombine non-hyphenated trailing primary alpha with secondary number (No answer will be bypassed) TC Recombine hyphenated trailing primary numeric with secondary number (No answer will be bypassed) TD Recombine hyphenated trailing alphanumeric/numberic alpha with secondary number (No answer will be bypassed) TE Recombine secondary values into one; exact match only (No answer will be bypassed) APO / FPO UA Bad org info in address line without ZIP Code UB Out of range records for PSC box numbers U0 Clean military addresses with 5-digit U1 Reversed box/PSC number with ZIP Code U2 Reversed box/PSC number without ZIP Code U3 Good address/ZIP Code with invalid city name U4 PSC box turned into PO Box with ZIP Code (No grading for standardization) U5 Missing PSC, CMR, unit number with good box number (Return input record) U6 Good military address with invalid ZIP Code U7 Bad org info in Firm Name field with good ZIP Code U8 Bad org info in Firm Name field without ZIP Code U9 Bad org info in address line with ZIP Code Delivery Address Line V0 Contains firm name (Return input record) V1 Contains highrise name (Return input record) Multiple Finance Number Matching W0 Multiple response within finance no. - dropped 5-digit (Return input record) W1 Single response within finance no.- dropped 5-digit W2 Altered street name W3 No correlation between city and ZIP Code - match in ZIP Code (No answer will be bypassed) W4 City and ZIP Code from different finance numbers (Return input record) W5 State does not agree with ZIP Code (Return input record) Highrise X0 With a firm suite number X2 With misspelled street (No answer will be bypassed) X8 With a firm suite number and misspelled city Split/Combined Elements Y0 Combine pre-directional with street name Y1 Split pre-directional words off street name Y2 Split suffix words off street name Y3 Drop suffix words off multi-word street names Y4 Combine suffix with street name Y5 Shift street name to pre-directional suffix to street name ZIPMove Z0 Valid match in new finance number/Match. Z1 Invalid match in ZIPMove/No Match. Z2 Valid ZIPMove match; invalid in new finance number/No Match. Out of Range/Overlapping 10 Bad PO Box for finance no./ZIP (Return input record) 11 Overlapping PO Box ranges/return lowest ZIP+4 15 Bad rural route for finance no./ZIP (Return input record) 20 Invalid primary number (Return input record) 21 Invalid secondary number 22 "EWS" No match; Input is an exact match to an EWS record Unique ZIP Codes 4A Valid city and ZIP Code 4B Valid city and ZIP Code with valid add-on (match) 4C Valid city and ZIP Code - default match 4D Valid city and ZIP code with add-on (retain ZIP+4) 4E No correlation between city and ZIP Code; match to city 4F No correlation between city and ZIP Code (no match; delete ZIP Code) (Return input record) 4G Input addess line taken from unique ZIP+4 record, match into non-unique Puerto Rico 5A Missing noise URB - end address/multiple with valid or invalid URB (Return input record) 5B Drop or abbreviate leading suffix 5C Alpha or numeric - end address 5D Numeric house number - end address preceded by "#," "No.," or "Num" 5E Alphanumeric house number - end address preceded by "Blq" 5F Alphanumeric house number - begin/end address space alphanumeric 5G Alphanumeric house number - begin/end address hyphen alphanumeric 5H Hyphen house number/"Blq" and "Casa," "Blq" and "#" 5J Address contains standalone word "Buzon" (no normalization) (Return input record) 5K No URB input - Match to address with blank URB (No answer will be bypassed) 51 No URB input - single response 52 No URB input - multiple response (Return input record) 53 Valid URB on input - single response with valid/invalid URB 54 Valid URB on input - multiple response with valid/invalid URB (Return input record) 55 Missing noise URB - single response with valid/invalid URB 56 Missing noise URB-multiple response with valid/ invalid URB 57 Valid URB end address-single response with valid or invalid URB 58 Valid URB end address - multiple response with valid or invalid URB (Return input record) 59 Missing URB noise end address - single valid/invalid URB Magnet Streets With Multiple Parse Variations 6E Parsed street name or ZIP+4 street name contains direc-tional or suffix (Return input record) 6F Variation in directional or suffix presentation 6G Suffix or directional dropped 6H Street name incorrectly split into multiple words 6K Trailing numeric/alpha value following a valid suffix Multiple Address Lines and Perfect Addresses 7A Address line split between two lines 70 Perfect address 7B Multiple field with split indicia