Patent ID: 7792683

Claim:
A method for providing postal patron address change information to subscribers that utilize mailing lists comprising names and address of such patrons, wherein a national postal service maintains a master change of address database that is updated on an intermittent basis by the national postal service, comprising: (a) receiving intermittent updates to the master change of address database and incorporating the updated change of address information into a computer-searchable, enhanced change of address database; (b) receiving change of address data from sources other than the national postal service and other than from postal patrons who are submitting address change information; (c) incorporating more recent change of address information received from such sources into the enhanced change of address database; and (d) distributing information from the enhanced database to one or more of the subscribers in a form in which the subscribers can use addresses corrected by information from the enhanced database to prepare a mailing, wherein steps (b)-(d) are executed in an interim period between receiving of updates in step (a), such that the enhanced change of address database during such interim period contains change of address data more recent than corresponding entries in the master change of address database.