| Volume 4 Issue 18 | December 18, 2001 |
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Group 1 recently sent the documents listed below to the primary user contacts on a maintenance plan via mass fax, mail, or with your product shipment. You may find these and other documents at www.g1.com/support. (Please have your user ID and password handy.) For our Fax-on-Demand system (FOD), please call 301-918-0781 and select menu option 4 to retrieve the document number indicated below. For LISTSERV, visit the Technical Support - Electronic Product Notification area of our web site to subscribe at www.g1.com/support. On our web site customers may NOT have access to all information listed below. It is only accessible if your company owns the particular product and/or platform addressed by the announcement. INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTS REF#: SSC231Cd1 - This two-page letter announces the upcoming release of SortStream Canada 2.3.1. This is a maintenance release and will be sent to all customers. Technical Notes will be available in the Special Request Downloads area of our website. The access code is provided in the letter.
REF#: CCS300Cd1 - This one-page letter announces the release of the revised version of Canadian CODE-1 Plus Client/Server 3.0.0. Many enhancements and fixes were included in the release of Canadian CODE-1 Client/Server. These changes are detailed in the Technical Notes for Canadian CODE-1 Plus 3.0.0 Client/Server or included with the shipment. They are also available on Special Request Downloads with the access code provided in the letter.
REF#: ICC300Cd1 - This one-page letter announces the release of the revised version of Canadian CODE-1 Plus Integrator 3.0.0. Many enhancements and fixes were included in the release of Canadian CODE-1 Plus 3.0.0. These changes are detailed in the Technical Notes for Canadian CODE-1 Plus 3.0.0 Integrator included with the shipment. They are also available on Special Request Downloads with the access code provided in the letter.
 Sign up today for one of several excellent education classes Group 1 University is offering throughout the month of January. These classes give you the opportunity to get answers to your questions and share your experiences with Group 1 products. Visit our Education department at www.g1.com/education for a more complete listing of classes currently being offered or call 800-859-4133 for more information.
The IDEAlliance, formerly GCA, held several meetings during the last week of November to discuss the upcoming Mail.dat 02-1 specifications. These new specifications should be available in the early part of 2002. Changes include the moving of the interim releases into their own permanent fields, USPS PostalOne requirements, conformance, rate case, and other information needs. The release of the updated Mail.dat software should coincide with or precede the rate case. The USPS has not yet decided what the actual rate case date will be. The rate case will possibly be sometime in the summer of 2002, so it would be wise to expect a software release sometime in the spring. Group 1 will make the Job ID (RP_INF MDMFJI) optional. If left blank, MailStream Plus will generate a random ID that will be unique for at least 10 years. There will be no new files, but existing files will change. Group 1 will make every effort to provide a parameter option that will allow switching between 00-1 and 02-1 formats. We hope this will make the transition easier for our customers. More will be known when IDEAlliance publishes Mail.dat information in January 2002.
. . . In the September rate case filing, the USPS had proposed increasing the Address Correction fees for ACS from 60 cents to 70 cents while keeping automated ACS results at the present 20-cent charges. Mailers implementing Group 1's MOVEforward software solution can reduce, if not eliminate, ACS charges by using this system as part of the USPS FASTforward program. For more information on the MOVEforward solution, contact your local sales representative or send an inquiry to Info@g1.com. . . . According to industry experts and USPS testimony, the mailing industry is finding ways to meet key elements for success. These elements are:
Have you attended a Local User Group meeting in your area recently? These meetings are a great way to share information with others. Local User Groups are a great source of knowledge and experience, as well as a great place to discuss what is happening in the industry and how it may affect your organization. Check the list below and attend a meeting at your next opportunity. Local User Group chapters are open to ALL Group 1 customers. Membership and registration are handled on a local level. Group 1 clients are invited and encouraged to join the group of their choice. DENVER AREA
INDIANA
PHILADELPHIA AREA
When version 2.3.1 is released, the name will no longer be Mail Canada Plus. In compliance with Canada Post Corporation naming conventions, the Mail Canada Plus product has been renamed SortStream Canada. The newly named SortStream Canada must be used for all mailings prepared after January 31, 2002. Canada Post Corporation will not accept mailings prepared using Mail Canada Plus after this date. SortStream Canada 2.3.1 will include Dispatcher4 version 2.1.0. This is a new, delimited-processing version of Dispatcher4. Please be advised that rates for mailing are scheduled to change January 14, 2002. Mail Canada Plus version 2.3.0 can be used for mailings through January 31, 2002. However, Mail Canada Plus 2.3.0 must use the January Canadian Postal Reference File to support the rate change of January 14. You need only to install the January database to affect those changes. In all cases, Mail Canada Plus 2.3.0 cannot be used for mailings after January 31, 2002. SortStream Canada version 2.3.1 should be used for mailings after January 14, 2002. Therefore, for the period January 14,2002, through January 31, 2002, either Mail Canada Plus 2.3.0 or SortStream Canada 2.3.1 may be used to produce valid SERP mailings with the newly implemented rates.
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