USPS address validation error

Hi,

When we are sending request to USPS address validation by using Automation variables it is working fine, But when I changed to Dot net vartiable it Is not taking ‘#’ symbol and getting following error response.

Can any one help on this.

Request

“>”>production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll

3872 hwy 64 w #313

Tyler
TX
75704

Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

-

80040B19

XML Syntax Error: Please check the XML request to see if it can be parsed.

**USPSCOM::DoAuth**