Testing an idea - need a specific data set

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Hi HN, I have been looking for a list of every physical address known to the USPS. Does anyone know where I can get this? I've check the gov sites (USPS, HUD, Dept. of Commerce) but no luck. Thought I would ask here. Can anyone help?

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It's possible to extract the address ranges, street names, city, and state using the TIGER/Line dataset. It won't give precise addresses (for example, if the range is 200-300 and address 250 doesn't exist, it won't say that). It also isn't that easy to deal with.

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

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