Why doesn’t address ______ pass DPV?
99% of the time the answer is that the USPS simply doesn’t have this address registered, or the address has too many incorrect elements to validate. Note that just because an address doesn’t pass DPV doesn’t mean nothing can be delivered there. In fact, we have a blog entry (written by yours truly) on this very topic. See: “How Postal Workers Handle ‘DPV-Invalid’ Addresses” Here are some more complete answers to the various forms in which this question comes: • I’ve sent mail there before / It’s my address Assuming the address is not significantly malformed, then the address is likely not registered with the USPS as being deliverable. These are rare cases, but they pop up from time to time. Once the address finds its way to the USPS official list of valid addresses, they’ll be included in our service. • Google Maps / Yahoo Maps finds it. Why don’t you? Neither Google nor Yahoo are CASS Certified. Instead, they know street names and general numeric ranges for them. To find a particular
