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Most of the location information we have collected in our DB has come from processing credit-card charges, so it is stored in the Billing location. In some cases I would like to be able to access this info as a Token during a CiviMail mailing. According to : http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Mail-merge+Tokens+for+Contact+Data "For location fields, the primary location value will be used (this includes address, phone and email fields)." The Tokens listed on http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Mail-merge+Tokens+for+Contact+Data are generically  named and don't specify which location (primary/billing/etc.) to use, but do actually display the Primary. While a cascade effect would be preferred for the generically named Tokens(use generic variable and have a cascading selection order till one level is filled in), explicit named variable access could be a stop-gap.

Generic(Current):

{contact.street_address} - Street Address
{contact.supplemental_address_1} - Supplemental Address 1
{contact.supplemental_address_2} - Supplemental Address 2
{contact.city} - City

Explicit(idea):

{contact.primary.street_address} - Primary Street Address
{contact.primary.supplemental_address_1} - Primary Supplemental Address 1
{contact.primary.supplemental_address_2} - Primary Supplemental Address 2
{contact.primary.city} - Primary City

{contact.billing.street_address} - Billing Street Address
{contact.billing.supplemental_address_1} - Billing Supplemental Address 1
{contact.billing.supplemental_address_2} - Billing Supplemental Address 2
{contact.billing.city} - Billing City

That's what I figured :-( but glad to hear that a hook in 2.2 may be coming that might help with implementing this. I'm currently a solo effort on implementing the tech here, but may have some help coming. If they come(or I get some of that magical stuff called "Free-Time"), I'll put this on my/our to-do list. Unfortunately at the moment I have more ideas than resources

Well at least I have it documented so I won't forget.