The design of the new statement drove our new requirements for a document composition system. The new statement uses graphics as well as one-to-one marketing messages and we found that there were just a couple of companies who could deliver all our requirements and run in a high-volume production environment.
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Resource Manager
Maritz Corporation
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How CODE-1 Plus™ Works
CODE-1 Plus™ is a CASS-certified™ address-matching system that improves address quality and mail deliverability, making it possible for you to take advantage of USPS® postal discounts. CODE-1 Plus™ matches input addresses to the addresses in the CODE-1 Plus™ database in order to correct your postal information and adds the postal information that could help save you money. This postal information can include:
- ZIP Codes
- ZIP+4 Codes
- Delivery point codes
- Carrier route codes
- Standardized addresses
- Standardized city and state
- Line of Travel codes
Processing results are written to one or more output files, depending on your specifications.
The Matching Process
As part of the address matching and standardization, address lines are copied from the input record, separated into components, analyzed, and compared to the contents of the CODE-1 Plus™ database. Any address information not used as part of matching is referred to as dropped address information. If a match is found, the input address is standardized according to the contents of the database. If no database match is determined, CODE-1 Plus™ provides the option to normalize input addresses. The normalization process attempts to format the address lines according to conventions outlined in USPS® Publication 28. When the normalization option is invoked and no database match is found for a particular address, CODE-1 Plus™ attempts to recognize the individual elements and formats them according to USPS® conventions.
Total Data Quality
CODE-1 Plus™ works in conjunction with FineTune Data™ and VeriMove™ to correct even the hard-to-correct addresses, providing you the most current and accurate output files possible.
