[Talk-us] importing zip codes

Greg Morgan dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 03:20:57 UTC 2014


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:
>
>> The USPS has a web site for giving ZIP and ZIP+4 values for specified
>> addresses at
>> https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=0&refresh=true
>>
>
>
> https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupResultsAction!input.action?resultMode=0&companyName=&address1=My_number+My_direction+My_street_name+My_street_type&address2=My_other_optional_stuff&city=My_state&state=My_state_code&urbanCode=&postalCode=&zip=
>
> That's the minimal url.  This interface is more for casual use.
>
> I don't have a link but USPS have another method for sending up to five
> addresses per transaction.  They target this interface for smaller batches
> for small mailings such as 250 addresses a day.
>
>
Here's the api I was thinking of.

https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/welcome.htm

"USPS Web Tools(R) are ecommerce application program interfaces (APIs) that
can be used for online stores or customer service centers--free of charge.

*Get access to USPS Web Tools through our simple registration process.*



> They'd like you to use another paid for service for larger transactions.
>
>
Here's the landing page to publication 28 and some of the other paid for
services.
https://www.usps.com/business/address-management-pubs.htm


> There are some JOSM plugins that would be worthy of adding the five
> address transaction method to.
>
>
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