# Presentation: 673521

## MTAC # 104List CertificationStatus Update

**MTAC # 104****List Certification****Status Update**

- USPS Co-chairs: Charles Hunt, James Wilson
- Industry Co-chair: Chris Lien
- USPS Sponsors: Charles Bravo, Nick Barranca
- Industry Sponsors: Ernie Rojas, Joe Lubenow

**November 2, 2006**

## Major Stakeholders

**Postage Payers / Mailers**
**List Owners**
**List Brokers**
**Service Bureaus**
**Printers / Lettershops**
**Software Vendors**
**U.S. Postal Service**

- We currently have 34 members in Workgroup 104

## Proposed List Certification Policies

**Proactive steps to ensure accuracy**
**Establishing a feedback mechanism**
**Provides guidance to stakeholders**
**Timely utilization of feedback information**
**Interacts with the USPS to reconcile address problems**
**Meets established documentation standards**
**Optionally provides extrapolated address information as allowable to the USPS to improve address information within other certified lists**

- The List Administrator

## List Certification Process

**CASS Certified****TM**** Software**
**DPV****TM**
**LACS****Link****TM**
**Suite****Link****TM**
**AEC and AEC II**
**NCOA****Link****TM**
**ANK****Link****TM**
**OneCode****ACS****TM**
**Other industry address correction tools**

## Application of Address Quality

**Standardize**

**Application of Address Quality**

**Validate**

**Update**

**Notes:**
Products to use to achieve total address quality...
Standardize – “Capture it correctly” – CASS-Certified Software (Coding Accuracy Support System). The first place to have an effective tool to make improvements to your address quality is when the customer’s address is entered into your database.
Validate – “Make certain it’s correct” – LACSLink (Locatable Address Conversion System – Linkage System), DPV (Delivery Point Validation), and AEC & AECII  (Address Element Correction & Step II)
LACSLink is a bridge between old and newly formatted address
DPV is a companion to CASS to precisely identify primary, secondary, and  apartment numbers
AEC/AECII helps get ZIP+4 codes for hard to code addresses
Update  “Keep up with customers on the move” – NCOALink (National Change of Address Linkage System), ANKLink (Addressee Not Known Linkage System), and ACS  (Address Change Service)
NCOALink used prior to mailing to help identify if a customer has moved and gives the customer’s new address
ANKLink is designed for users of the NCOALink 18-month service to tell you that a change of address order has been filed within the last 19 to 48 months for the customer
ACS is a post mailing operation where ACS participants print an ACS keyline or participant code on mail pieces and are notified of the new address that the mailpiece was forwarded  (Click)

## Some New and Current Definitions

**Certified List**
**SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm)**
**A value representing a name and address**
**List Administrator**
**Certified List Administrator**
**Non-certified Addresses**
**Addresses in which some level of deficiency is detected, thus resulting in the address being considered potentially UAA**
**CARL (Corrective Action Required List)**
**Corrective Action Code**

## A Proposed Feedback Mechanism

## Next Steps

**Meeting at 12:00 on November 2**
**Discussing Validation**
**How do you prove the address is certified?**
**Recommendations**

## Contact Information

**Interested participants should contact**
**Charles Hunt**
**Charles.Hunt@usps.gov**
**James Wilson**
**james.d.wilson@usps.gov**
**Chris Lien**
**chris.lien@businessobjects.com**