Router Addr Hygiene

The Circulation router is defined as a collection of address ranges. Each address range consists of two addresses—the “to” address and the “from” address. Addresses that fall in between the “to” and “from” addresses are defaulted to the specified route (see Router Utility for more information on the router).

When addresses are cleansed, it may happen that they no longer have the address elements (Zip code, street name, etc.) that fit the router. For example, if the router assigned addresses in the range of 300 Main St and 500 Main St to route 6, and 430 Main St was cleansed to 430 West Main St, the router would no longer assign it to route 6.

To prevent this from happening, the router addresses themselves can be cleansed with Router Address Hygiene. This utility cleanses both the “to” and “from” addresses, just as Batch Address Hygiene, and then compares the “to” and “from” addresses to make sure their address elements match (except for house number—the “to” and “from” addresses will, of course, have different house numbers). For example, with the router addresses mentioned above we might have:

To/From	Before cleansing	Cleansed
To	300 Main St 55107	300 West Main St 55107
From	500 Main St 55107	500 East Main St 55107

In this case, the router addresses would not be updated, because the “to” and “from” address elements do not match. The four outcomes of Router Address Hygiene are listed below. Each outcome will print either on the Assigned Addresses Report or the Unassigned Addresses Report produced by the process.

Cleansed?	Match?	Update?	Report
Both cleansed	Yes	Yes	Assigned Address Report (if the original addresses differ from the cleansed addresses)
Both cleansed	No	No	Unassigned Address Report
1 address cleansed, 1 not cleansed	Match not done	Yes	Assigned Address Report
Nether cleansed	Match not done	No	Unassigned Address Report

Note:

• Only a certain percentage of cleansed addresses will appear on the Assigned Address Report, determined by the nth’ing factor. When one address from a range is cleansed and the other is not cleansed, both addresses will always appear on the report.

• As with Batch Address Hygiene, this option will only cleanse addresses if you use Quadient for address correction.

To run the Router Address Hygiene utility:

• Select Router Address Hygiene from the Utilities | Subscription/Address menu to display the Router Address Hygiene Processing Report screen.

  
• Select Add and enter information in the fields described in the table below.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  SELECT BY	predefined	Indicate whether to update router segments defined by city, Zip Code, or both.
  ALL ZIPS	yes/no	If cleansing ZIP Code segments, indicate whether all ZIP Codes should be cleansed.
  ZIP CODE	setup	If you entered “n” in the previous field, enter the ZIP Code that should be cleansed (US Zip+4 is not supported by the router). Enter “*” to multi-select Zip codes (see Entering Multiple Zip Codes).
  ALL CITIES	yes/no	If cleansing city segments, indicate whether all cities should be cleansed.
  CITY, COUNTY, STATE, COUNTRY	setup	If you entered “n” in the previous field, enter the city, county, state and country that should be cleansed. Enter “*” in City to multi-select cities.
  UPDATE	yes/no	Indicate whether router addresses should be updated. We recommend that you first run this utility without updating addresses, and study the reports produced.
  REPORT ALL DETAIL	yes/no	Indicate whether every address should be listed in the Assigned Addresses Report (one of the reports created).
  NTH’ING FACTOR	integer (4)	If you entered “n” in the previous field, indicate the nth’ing factor to use for displaying addresses in the Assigned Addresses Report. For instance, if you want every tenth address to be displayed, enter “10”.
  REQUIRE DUAL ASSIGNMENT	yes/no	Enter “y” if a router record should be assigned only when both the from and to addresses are assigned. Otherwise enter “n”.

• Select Continue to begin processing. Router Address Hygiene will compare the ZIP Code, street name, street type, prefix and suffix of the router address to postal directories and cleanse the address if necessary. If the router address has no ZIP Code, Router Address Hygiene will instead use the city, county, state and country for comparison. If a cleansed address has a street type, city, county, or state not set up in Circulation, Circulation will add it to the database.

• Three reports are produced by the process: the Assigned Address Report (the default spool name begins RTRHYB1), The Unassigned Address Report (RTRHYB2), and the Summary Statistics Report (RTRHYB3). See Batch Address Hygiene Reports for more information on the reports. These reports can be viewed and printed from the View/Print Utility.

Example—Assigned Address Report (Router Hygiene)

Example—Unassigned Address Report (Router Hygiene)

Example—Summary Statistics Report(Router Hygiene)