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Address Management System (AMS) is the United States Postal Service master database of deliverable addresses. Address-checking tools using AMS provide address standardization, as well as city/state and ZIP Code lookup features. [1]

Business mailers use the USPS Address Management System database to standardize addresses by correcting errors in street addresses and city names and to return the correct ZIP Codes. City/state lookup services use AMS to provide the city and state corresponding to any given ZIP Code. [2]

AMS is also a general term describing a technological solution for managing street addressing. [3]

References

  1. ^ United States Postal Service, "Postal Operations". [1] Operations Planning. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
  2. ^ United States Postal Service, "Click-N-Ship For Business". "Shipping Assistant 3.7 User Guide". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2012-09-18. Shipping Assistant 3.7 User Guide. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
  3. ^ Street Addressing and the Management of Cities, copyright 2005