Return Mail - NCOALink

New USPS Mandates

Each year more than 44 million Americans (18-20% of all households and businesses) relocate and more than 23% of all mail contains addressing errors. According to the USPS, undeliverable mail due to bad addresses cost the Post Office nearly two billion dollars a year and the cost estimated to the associated businesses is twice that - 4 billion dollars!

In response, the Post Office has committed to reducing the volume of undeliverable mail by 50% by 2010. To achieve this objective, the USPS is mandating changes that impact all mailers.

What can you do to help? Better addresses of course. How? Use the most current information. And use the tools that are out there, like NCOALink and eCorrect.(See our description of eCorrect services that provide a whole new level of real-time address correction services.)

Etactics helps minimize this undeliverable mail and its associated costs. Our standard address processing includes the use of Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) approved software to correct addressing deficiencies. We correct delivery line deficiencies related to errors in street name, house or P.O.Box number, secondary number, street directional/suffix and rural routes or rural box numbers. We correct last line deficiencies related to errors in the ZIP.

NCOALink

Our NCOALink Service provides access to the USPS National Change of Address system. We process the addresses contained in your statement and/or letter files to see if any of the people in the file have instructed the USPS to forward their mail to a new address. A change of address record is added to the USPS database when an individual, family or business submits a Change of Address card to the USPS. If there is a match, the new address is substituted for the address contained in your file. These address updates are then identified in a report so that you can keep your address file current.