To use their bulk address tools, you really need web programmer to use the server based tools called "APIs". The People's Audit can be used to validate both the residential and mail addresses for your entire state. If you want to do it yourself, you would have to work with a US Post Office vendor that have the same type of software printer use to check batches of addresses before calculating postage.
Getting CASS data is not difficult. But there are multiple datasets available. What do you plan to do with it? Will you be doing one off checks (small volume) or taking an entire list and checking it?
Most political data checking uses will probably want the "Zip+4" product and maybe the RDI (Residential Delivery Indicator) product, again, depending on what you want to do and with what volume.
There are also APIs available if you want to test your programming skills and have plenty of hair to lose.
USPS calls this data "Address Information System Products" or "AIS Products." Here are some links to look at what is available:
If you're actually going to do bulk mailing with USPS, I would recommend using one of the commercial packages or services out there already, as your list will need to be "CASS Certified" and getting your program certified can be an ordeal. I went down the road of trying to write and certify my own and it wasn't worth my time. Now I just pay a list service to do it for me, and for a little more I can get NCOA, RDI, and SSDI checks in the same run.
Please help Dallas Texas get rid of Heider Garcia and Clay Jenkins! They are the head of the snake here in Dallas Texas in regards to our elections being corrupt! Please if you haven't already put an email into our Republican Dallas County chairman lieutenant Colonel Allen West I beg you to start that dialogue with him! I am an election inspector, judge and precinct chair and we need your help! Thank you!
You know those Clear TSA security machines at the airports that scan your eye? What about making those voting machines with block chain or quantum security built in?
As for NCOA not being public data, that is true (so I've been told). The way around it is to run your list through NCOA/SSDI, identify the moved or dead people, then send them a first class post card with the "DO NOT FORWARD" endorsement on it. I get the postcard back (or more likely a USPS generated card) with all the same information printed on it. Now it's "public." I have taken that postcard or copy and submitted it to election boards as evidence they moved. In my state, they have to generate a letter and send it which just repeats what I did, and that is sufficient for them to be removed.
Why the states don't just run their list through NCOA every year is beyond me. I've had a couple of conversations with my Congressman about it - to amend HAVA to require they do it and require USPS to allow it. We'll see how far that goes.
We just rolled out voter roll-to-voter roll comparisons where The People's Audit can cross reference all the state we monitor. Now we can find cross state registrants in minutes. And best of all, the evidence is undeniable because we have the exact same person showing up in multiple states with linking addresses.
You can use this webform to check an address one-by-one
https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress
To use their bulk address tools, you really need web programmer to use the server based tools called "APIs". The People's Audit can be used to validate both the residential and mail addresses for your entire state. If you want to do it yourself, you would have to work with a US Post Office vendor that have the same type of software printer use to check batches of addresses before calculating postage.
I just got on the USPS website.
The documentation really sucks.
Do you have any training videos that explain how to get the CASS data and how to use it?
Getting CASS data is not difficult. But there are multiple datasets available. What do you plan to do with it? Will you be doing one off checks (small volume) or taking an entire list and checking it?
Most political data checking uses will probably want the "Zip+4" product and maybe the RDI (Residential Delivery Indicator) product, again, depending on what you want to do and with what volume.
There are also APIs available if you want to test your programming skills and have plenty of hair to lose.
USPS calls this data "Address Information System Products" or "AIS Products." Here are some links to look at what is available:
https://postalpro.usps.com/mnt/glusterfs/2024-07/AIS002.pdf (List of datasets and prices)
https://postalpro.usps.com/address-quality/AIS_Products_Technical_Guide - like it says, the technical guide.
If you're actually going to do bulk mailing with USPS, I would recommend using one of the commercial packages or services out there already, as your list will need to be "CASS Certified" and getting your program certified can be an ordeal. I went down the road of trying to write and certify my own and it wasn't worth my time. Now I just pay a list service to do it for me, and for a little more I can get NCOA, RDI, and SSDI checks in the same run.
Please help Dallas Texas get rid of Heider Garcia and Clay Jenkins! They are the head of the snake here in Dallas Texas in regards to our elections being corrupt! Please if you haven't already put an email into our Republican Dallas County chairman lieutenant Colonel Allen West I beg you to start that dialogue with him! I am an election inspector, judge and precinct chair and we need your help! Thank you!
You know those Clear TSA security machines at the airports that scan your eye? What about making those voting machines with block chain or quantum security built in?
As for NCOA not being public data, that is true (so I've been told). The way around it is to run your list through NCOA/SSDI, identify the moved or dead people, then send them a first class post card with the "DO NOT FORWARD" endorsement on it. I get the postcard back (or more likely a USPS generated card) with all the same information printed on it. Now it's "public." I have taken that postcard or copy and submitted it to election boards as evidence they moved. In my state, they have to generate a letter and send it which just repeats what I did, and that is sufficient for them to be removed.
Why the states don't just run their list through NCOA every year is beyond me. I've had a couple of conversations with my Congressman about it - to amend HAVA to require they do it and require USPS to allow it. We'll see how far that goes.
We just rolled out voter roll-to-voter roll comparisons where The People's Audit can cross reference all the state we monitor. Now we can find cross state registrants in minutes. And best of all, the evidence is undeniable because we have the exact same person showing up in multiple states with linking addresses.
Can't we just verify who's moved by cross checking with utility bills? check them weekly or monthly.
I just got on the USPS website.
The documentation really sucks.
Do you have any training videos that explain how to get the CASS data and how to use it?
Keep up the good work!!