ational hange ddress - Process to update addresses where the addressee has notified the Postal Service of a new address. The NCOA database contains 4 years of data and satisfies to USPS move-update rule. See also FASTforward and ACS.
This licensed product gives companies current address change information before mailing to insure the mailing reaches the intended customers. Licensing information is available at 1-800-589-5766.
The National Change of Address (NCOA) database is maintained by the U.S. Postal Service as a resource for mailers to make certain that their name and address files are as current as possible. The database contains the last three years of address change information on record with the Postal Service. Vendors are licensed by the Postal Service to be able to run mailers' databases against the NCOA file for a fee to provide the most up-to-date, deliverable address records possible. Back
National Change of Address: An address correction service that matches mailing lists against change-of-address information for the entire country from all Computerized Forwarding Systems units. This electronic process returns your database with the moved addresses flagged for correction. This process is used to comply with the USPS regulation required for mailing First Class at discounted postage rates. An address list must be updated every 6 months or 180 days. There is a minimum charge for this service with costs generally ranging from $2.00 to $5.00 per thousand addresses.
National Change of Address. An address correction service that the USPS provides to mailers through USPS licensees. The licensees match mailing lists submitted to them against change of address information for the entire country from all Computerized Forwarding System units. If a match is made, NCOA can correct the address before it is printed on a mailpiece.
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National Change of Address, a correction service provided to mailers by the USPS through its licensees. All change-of-address data submitted by relocating customers are transmitted daily to the USPS National Customer Support Center in Memphis, TN. The center consolidates the data, then places the data on computer tape, and standardizes the addresses against the zip+4 databases. The licensees match computerized mailing lists with change-of-address data, and NCOA provides current standardized and ZIP+4 coded addresses for all residential and business movers.
An USPS - licensed automated system that updates addresses - going back nine four\48 months years - by identifying names and addresses for which current change-of-address orders are on file. A piece updated with NCOA can be delivered directly to the new address rather than forwarded from the old address.
National Change of Address - Comprehensive system whereby households and businesses that have filed change of address information with the USPS are identified.
National Change of Address. The Royal Mail's list of people who have moved and had their mail redirected.
Accepted abbreviation for National Change Of Address file. The file held by Royal Mail to track people who have moved.
National Change of Address. A list enhancement process that matches mail file records against a database of recent movers with their forwarding address. The database is compiled by the USPS from change of address cards; it contains the last 18 months of movers and is updated twice each month. Selected private sector vendors which meet USPS criteria may be selected to perform this process for a fee.
National Change of Address. An address correction service that the USPS provides to mailers through USPS licensees. The licensees match mailing lists submitted to them on tape or disk against change-of-address information for the entire country from all Computerized Forwarding System units. NCOA can correct an address before it is used on a piece of mail.
(National Change of Address System) USPS' database of new addresses for postal customers who have moved, and filed address changes with the USPS.
National Change Of Address. A process through which a service provider compares the addresses in a mailing list to the change of address records filed with the USPS. NCOA processing checks for moves in the last 48 months. An alternate system, called Fast-Forward, only compares the last 13 months.
National Change of Address. A service provided by the U.S. Postal Service, through licensed computer service bureaus, that enables mailers to make any necessary address corrections prior to their mailing being dropped. The mailer provides a magnetic tape that is run against the national change of address bank and then is returned to the mailer with all the corrections made.
National Change of Address. A service of the USPS to improve the accuracy of mailing addresses. The NCOA file is compiled from change of address cards (found at all post offices) that are filled out and submitted by movers to have their mail forwarded to their new address. Mailing lists can then be matched against this file of movers to supply the current mailing address. This service is performed by vendors licensed by the postal service.