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Losing "PMB" (postal mail box) info when running AddressAccelerator from Data Health Center

Last post 07-06-2009 1:24 PM by Leslie Cox. 0 replies.
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  • 07-06-2009 1:24 PM

    • Leslie Cox
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    • Organization: Asante Foundations / Rogue Valley Medical Center

    Losing "PMB" (postal mail box) info when running AddressAccelerator from Data Health Center

    Has anyone else seen this occur?  I'm not sure if I know how to prevent it from happening again - I'm having a hard time figuring out how to query those records beforehand, so I can restore them after I've run AddressAccelerator.

    What's happening is that for addresses that are not PO Boxes (it's only allowed to be called a PO Box if it's at a US Post Office) - the PMB and the number of the box are being stripped from the street address - but it only happens when I run AddressAccelerator from the Data Health Center.  I tested it on two addresses in the system I know that have this situation, and using the F8 key on the record itself does NOT cause this to happen.

     The consequence is, that unless you save all your old addresses, or have done something with the ones it might impact in advance so you can fix them afterward, those addresses become incomplete because the box number is lost.

    For instance:

    1314-B Center Dr #100  will F8 validate without change, but after I run the full validation, it reads as "1314 Center Dr Unit B" which is clearly not going to reach my constituent unless there are very few boxes at that UPS or other Mailboxes Etc. -type store.

    Has anyone seen this to occur, and if so, what have you done about it?

    (If I've not posted in the right place, I hope the moderator can move me to where this belongs, but this seemed the best of the options I saw)

     

    -- Leslie

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