DSF2 (a.k.a. DSF or Delivery Sequence File)
Take address quality and postage discounts to the next level.
Peachtree Data licenses the DSF2 product from the USPS to further enhance and identify addresses in your mailing list as USPS delivery points. Using the DSF2 product helps to reduce the amount of undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) pieces, which in turn will result in more efficient postal mail processing and delivery operations.
Using the DSF2 file on your mailing list can provide several benefits:
- Identify if an address has been vacant for more than 90 days
- Identify if an address is at a business or residential location
- Identify records that are seasonally occupied
- Identify records that are located at an educational institution
- Identifies if an address is delivered to a curb-side mailbox or by a door-slot. This information allows for more targeted mailings.
- DSF2 processing is one of the approved methods outlined in the Domestic Mail Manual for sequencing mail pieces in walk-sequence. This could allow you to qualify for lower postage rates.
DSF2 processing can be provided as a stand-alone service, however we recommend running the DSF2 service along with the NCOALink service to update your mailing list with change-of-address information in one pass.
DSF2 Output
- CASS™ standardization of your input address
- ZIP + 4® Coding
- Carrier Route
- DPV® return code and DPV footnotes
- LACSLink®
- SuiteLink™
- Vacant address indicator
- Business or Residential indicator
- Seasonal address indicator
- Educational institution address indicator
- Mailbox delivery type
- Pseudo Walk Sequence number
- Your original input record
The DSF
2 database is updated monthly.