# Bulk Route Changes

This option is useful when setup must be changed for a large number of routes. For example, say that the Sunday edition for all routes in a certain district must be changed from “Early” to “Final”. Instead of modifying route setup for each route individually, you can run Bulk Route Changes and change all the routes at once. The setup information that can be updated with this tool includes:

* District
* Edition
* Depot
* Service Area
* Delivery Schedule
* Insert Group (InsertPlus sites only)
* Route Class
* Route Name
* Allow Office Pay Flag
* Allow Carrier Collect Flag

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note:**

*Setup information cannot be blanked out with this option. For example, if you wanted to change the rate class for a group of routes from “super” to blank, you would have to modify the routes individually.*
{% endhint %}

#### To run the utility:

* Select Bulk Route Changes from the Setup menu.<br>

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* Select Add and complete the following fields.<br>

  <table><thead><tr><th width="230.96731054977712">Field</th><th width="123">Type</th><th>What to enter</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>PRODUCT</td><td>setup</td><td>Enter the product to which these routes belong.</td></tr><tr><td>ROUTE OPTION</td><td>predefined</td><td>Indicate whether bulk changes are being made to home delivery routes, single copy routes, or both.</td></tr><tr><td>SELECTION TYPE</td><td>predefined</td><td>Indicate whether this utility should change routes in a particular district, zone, region, or area, or an individual route.</td></tr><tr><td>SELECTION VALUE</td><td>setup</td><td>Enter a particular district, zone, region, area or route (depending on the selection type entered above) for which to run the utility, or enter “*” to multi-select.</td></tr><tr><td>EFFECTIVE DATE</td><td>date</td><td>Enter the date on which the setup changes should take effect.</td></tr><tr><td>DISTRICT<br>SERVICE AREA<br>DELIVERY SCHEDULE<br>INSERT GROUP<br>ROUTE CLASS<br>ROUTE NAME<br>SINGLE COPY LOCATION<br>ALLOW OFFICE PAY<br>ALLOW CARRIER COLLECT<br>EDITION (SUN - SAT)<br>DEPOT (SUN-SAT)<br>DEPOT DROP ORDER</td><td>setup<br>setup<br>setup<br>setup<br>setup<br>open (25)<br>open (30)<br>yes/no<br>yes/no<br>setup<br>setup<br>integer (8)</td><td>For each setup item that should be changed, enter the new value. If an item should not be changed, leave it blank. For example, if you only want to change the Sunday edition from “Early” to “Final”, enter “Final” in the first EDITION field and leave all other fields blank.</td></tr></tbody></table>

* Select Continue to make the route setup changes. For each route, the utility will look for an existing record with the values entered here; if it cannot find a record with these values, it will end date the old record and create a new record using the Effective Date field as the start date.

  The exceptions are delivery schedule and route name. A new delivery schedule record is created for the route if one does not already exist; however no other delivery schedule records are modified. In the case of route name, the existing record is changed to reflect the new name. After the route changes have been made, the Bulk Route Changes report will appear, listing all of the records that have been created or changed.


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