Did you miss the deadline?

Move Update Standards for First-Class Mail^®
and Standard Mail^®

AGENCY: United States Postal Service^®.
ACTION: Effective as of November 23, 2008

Two new mailing standards established to improve the percentage of deliverable mail were effective as of  November 23, 2008. These are:

1. The Move Update requirements now include all pieces of Standard Mail.
2. The minimum frequency of Move Update processing is 95 days prior to mailing instead of 185 days.

The Postal Service^® believes the revised standards in this ruling are crucial to the continued vitality of the postal system, as well as the business interests of mailers. The U.S. Postal Service^® spends about $1.8 billion a year handling Undeliverable-As- Addressed (UAA) mail. The new change to the Move Update requirements will result in better address quality by removing incorrectly addressed pieces from subsequent mailings, which is anticipated to reduce UAA mail by 50%.

If you are not compliant, TEC can help you today.

More than 40 million Americans change addresses annually. TEC Mailing Solutions matches mailing list addresses to 18 months of change-of-address information for families, individuals and businesses. Additionally, ANK^Link™ return codes identify addresses that have changed between 19 and 48 months, however the new address is not returned. This data is updated weekly.

At TEC Mailing Solutions, we are an NCOA^Link® Limited Service and ANK^Link™ Provider Licensee of the United States Postal Service. TEC Mailing Solutions provides 18 months of change-of-address information and USPS return codes plus DPV^®, LACS^Link®, and Suite^Link™ as our standard NCOA^Link® offering.