Hi all! I got caught completely off guard with the new USPS regulations on all bulk and pre-sort mailings. In case you don't know, before you can send out a bulk or pre-sort mailing, your mailing must be ran through a NCOA check. We use a mailing service that prepares our major mailings for us. They...

We are required by the USPS to store a participant code on every record in our database that would be pulled on a mailing list. This is because we will be participating in the electronic address change service. The code will consist of seven alpha characters and will be the same for every record. The...

Does anyone know where our organization can go, online, to look up privacy laws concerning donors and updating change of address through 3rd party venders (such as RE)? We are investigating using AddressFinder and AddressAccelerater, and all processes have come to a hult when we discovered the release...

I would like to know how RE users are going to handle this new compliance for mailings. Oct. 6, 2008) In an effort to cut the amount of undeliverable mail it processes, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is requiring mailing lists be updated and verified more frequently. Nonprofits that are not...

I am trying to get a feel for how other Organizations are handling the new USPS Move Update Standards...increasing the minimum frequency of Move Update processing from 185 calendar days to 95 days prior to the date of mailing. More frequent NCOA updates? Having your mailing house run your list through...

Good morning all, Can someone tell me where in the USPS website I can find the place to request electronic address updates service (instead of getting manual returns with the yellow sticky label on it). Thanks, as always Per electronic notice (or manual notice for electronic option customers) issued...

I used the usps.com website to check whether addresses I had in the 10021 zip code were affected by this change. At the top left of the web page, there is a link for "find a zip code".

Ray, Here is a link to the USPS site refering to Delivery Address http://www.usps.com/businessmail101/addressing/deliveryAddress.htm  One of the guidelines is "At least 10-point type" Pat Patricia Franklin Methodist Children's Home 1111 Herring Ave Waco, TX 76708 254-753-0181 ...

Hi fellow Forumites, I know we have discussed this in several ways before - but here's a new wrinkle - the question my ED posed. Can we keep the USPS address in RE as the preferred and use that for exports for the envelopes and ALSO load a formal address with punctuation etc into RE as a formal address...

Does anyone use the USPS' electronic address correction service (ACS)? The information about how it works is in their Publication 8. Right now we are paying .70 cents per address correction, but if you subscribe to this, it costs .20 cents per correction(maybe more with recent rate increase). Questions...