Manage postal address status with a "Status" field linked to each address

[SemperFi]

Hello,

Case : The postal services are sending us back mailings due to uncorrect addresses or people moved away without telling us the new address. Consequently data is incorrect in Civi.

Need : Right now I can't find a way to record in CiviCRM an information saying "This address is incorrect" in the contacts' addresses block.

Suggestion : Do you think it could be possible to add a "Status" field for each declared address to manage this data.
Values could be for example "Not known at this address"; "Address OK"(by default)... and manage as customized list of options.

Thanks

[Eileen]

You can add custom fields to addresses - we've done this to record address status in the past

[petednz]

or you can add new Location types for 'gone no address'

so you know that that particular address was their GNA

and add their new one if/when  you get it

[SemperFi]

Thanks for your response. I'd rather use a custom field, it suits perfectly the need, except that if we extract the data from the db, addresses and status will be in 2 different tables, and it will require a quick vlookup - but's ok !!
Thanks this is great.