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USPS Certifies Melissa Data with NCOALink®
Full Service Provider License
New certification provides mailers with access to 48-months of up-to-date address information for maximum mail deliverability
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (June 19, 2007) — Melissa Data (www.melissadata.com)
is pleased to announce it has been licensed as an NCOALink Full
Service Provider by the USPS® (United States Postal Service®). As
one of only a handful of Full Service Providers, Melissa Data can
update third party mailing lists and customer files against the full
48-month change of address file containing over 160 million
change-of-address records, as opposed to the 18-month file provided
to Limited Service licensees.
“We are very proud to be a certified Full Service Provider,” says
Chris Rowe, vice president of data enhancement services at Melissa
Data. “Bringing the processing of the full 48-month file in house
allows us to provide the most complete NCOALink product to our
customers at very attractive pricing, especially large volume
customers with datasets of 20+ million records.”
In addition to offering full 48-month NCOALink processing, Melissa
Data is the first provider to offer a 24-month processing service
for the price of their 18-month service – with very low minimums so
customers can affordably update small files. Faster turnarounds,
increased automation and security are available to customers by
using Melissa Data’s proprietary ListWare® software, which extracts
and formats only the fields required for NCOALink processing, then
automatically merges the updated fields back into the customer’s
original database.
NCOALink
NCOALink identifies customers who have moved, improving mail
deliverability and reducing the costs and time required to forward
mail. NCOALink, a mandatory requirement for First-Class Mail®
automation and presort discounts, will become mandatory for Standard
Mail® as well in 2008. The USPS estimates that approximately 18- to
20-percent of households and businesses in America move each year.
Businesses can save thousands of dollars on wasted, undeliverable
mail by using NCOALink to find relocated individuals, families, and
businesses.
About Melissa Data
Melissa Data, based in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. provides data
quality solutions with emphasis on address and phone verification,
postal encoding, and data enhancements. The company is a leading
provider of easy-to-use and cost-effective solutions for achieving
the highest level of data quality for lifetime value. A powerful
line of software, databases, components and services afford our
customers the flexibility to achieve quality U.S., Canadian and
international contact information using almost any language,
platform, and media for point-of-entry or batch applications. Free
trial software is available by visiting
www.MelissaData.com or by
calling1-800-800-6245.
CASS Certified, ZIP + 4, LACSLink, DPV and U.S. Postal Service are
trademarks of the USPS®.
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