Address
Quality
The decisions you make about address quality directly affect your
ability to reach valued customers. Cost-effective
and timely delivery of every mailpiece depends on an accurate address containing
complete and correct address elements, in other words, “total” address quality.
Total address quality can only be achieved through a multi-step process to
standardize, validate, and update your address database. The
National Customer Support Center (NCSC) offers many different Address Quality
products and services to help business mailers resolve addressing problems,
keep postage budgets in line, and attain total address quality.
Standardize
Five-Digit ZIP – contains detailed street data for multi-coded
cities
AMS API – a tool used in the development of address-matching
software
CASS™
System – Evaluates address-matching
software and improves the quality of ZIP+4, CRIS, and five-digit coding accuracy.
Carrier Route – contains data needed to apply carrier route
codes to addresses
City State – contains comprehensive ZIP Code data including
the city, county, and Post Office™ names associated with those ZIP Codes
Delivery Type – contains data that indicates the type of deliveries
made within each 5-digit ZIP Code in the United States
DSF2™ System – helps mailers identify inaccurate
or incomplete addresses
Z4Change – provides mailers with the data necessary to create
an application to facilitate frequent and cost-effective processing of very
large computerized mailing lists
Z4Info – Designed to give the mailer additional information to improve the
quality of their mailing lists by assisting in reducing the amount of undeliverable-as-addressed
mail.
ZIPMove – data created to assist address matching software
in providing up-to-date, accurate ZIP + 4 codes
ZIP + 4® Product – data that can be the base reference to assign
the correct ZIP + 4 code associated with a physical address
Validate
DPV™ System – assists
mailers in obtaining accurate delivery address information
LACSLink™ Service – an automated method of obtaining
new addresses after a 911 emergency system has been implemented
AEC & AECII – corrects
and standardizes address elements
Update
ACS™ Service – helps business mailers by providing a cost-effective
and efficient method of obtaining change of address (COA) information
CDS – provides and updates delivery sequence address information
by carrier route
EAS – processes and sequences address lists
NCOALink™
Service – a
comprehensive program that aids mailers in identifying address changes before
mail enters the mail stream
ANKLink™
Product – enables
NCOALink Limited Service Provider and End User Mailer licensees
to optionally acquire an additional 30 months of change-of-address information
SUITELink™
Product – used to
improve business addressing by adding known secondary (suite) numbers to allow
delivery sequencing where it would otherwise not be possible
FASTforward® System – contains more than 16 million permanent change-of-address records
filed with the Postal Service by relocating customers who want their mail
forwarded to their new address
