| Volume 4, Issue 19 | January 7, 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. CODING PRODUCTS REF#: DVU240Cd1 - This one-page letter updates customers to a defect with the listing of the actual addresses returned from the return code of "M".
REF#: C1P24GB1 - Greenbar listing for the January 2002 US Postal Database. Details file names and sizes.
INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTS REF#: C6P300Cd2 - This one-page letter informs customers of situations occurring in Canadian CODE-1 Plus 3.0.0. Workarounds for the situation are provided in the letter.
REF#: SSC231Cd2 - This one-page letter announces the renaming of Mail Canada Plus. The letter also provides important dates and deadlines regarding the name change.
REF#: SSC231Cd3 - This nine-page letter announces the release of SortStream Canada 2.3.1. This is a regulatory release and will be sent to all customers. Technical Notes for this release have been included in the letter. This letter also includes important dates and deadlines.
REF#: NZ6_GB01 - Greenbar listing for the January 2002 EZ-6/CUE Masterfile Greenbar. Details names and sizes.
REF#: MCPG2301 - Greenbar listing for the January 2002 CPC Reference File. Details names and sizes.
POSTAL PRODUCTS REF#: MSPG6321 - Greenbar listing for the January 2002 USPS Reference File. Details names and sizes.
 Group 1 University will be offering a variety of education classes throughout the month of January. These classes are a great way to familiarize yourself with Group 1 products and bring valuable information back to your company. For more information about the classes being offered or classes you may like to take in the future, visit our Education department at www.g1.com/education for a more complete listing of classes currently being offered or call 800-859-4133.
Group 1 Software recently announced that consulting firm ANALYTICi is utilizing Group 1's customer data quality solutions in ANALYTICi's client engagements. Headquartered in New York, ANALYTICi is a leading consulting organization providing end-to-end CRM application strategy, hosted database-marketing solutions, and customized multi-channel tracking systems in an effort to ensure ROI maximization. ANALYTICi is a division of the FCB Group and part of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., the largest organization of advertising agencies and marketing services companies in the world. The company combines a full range of marketing, technical and analytical disciplines to design, implement and evaluate data-intensive marketing programs. ANALYTICi's services create a single view of the customer and guide clients toward optimized corporate profitability. The company manages and measures the effectiveness of all customer interactions — whether via the web, call center or traditional direct mail — enabling its clients to manage customer relationships more effectively. ANALYTICi is utilizing Group 1's CODE-1 Plus to provide address data quality by cleansing, validating and standardizing every element of an address. Group 1's customer data consolidation solutions, List Conversion Plus, Business Merge/Purge Plus, and Consumer Merge/Purge Plus, identify and eliminate duplicate records using a sophisticated algorithm tailored to name and address processing. With accurate, non-redundant customer information, ANALYTICi's clients can develop highly effective marketing campaigns that reach the most likely prospects, maximizing return on marketing investments. "We selected Group 1's enterprise-wide data management tools since they are easy to implement, manage and maintain," said Stephen C. Horne, ANALYTICi president. "These solutions have simplified the design, implementation and management of our customer data-warehousing solutions." Group 1's data quality solutions are the cornerstone of successful CRM initiatives. These applications enable businesses to validate the integrity of customer and prospect data and enhance that information with valuable geographic and demographic intelligence.
Effective March 31, 2002, the USPS will implement a new addition to the DMM, Section M950, that will allow mailers to place automation-rate and Presorted-rate pieces in the same package. This new sortation, known as co-packaging, will be available for First Class, Standard, and Periodical mailings. Only one physical package per logical destination may be prepared under Section M950. A logical destination is all the pieces that qualify for a specific presort level based on the sortation rules. These pieces do not necessarily have to fit into one physical container. The current minimum mailing requirements for each class and presort level of mail, i.e. 500 automation and 500 Presorted pieces for First Class mail, continue to apply to the entire mailing; however, automation and Presorted pieces may be jointly considered when attempting to meet the minimum requirements for a package or container. Under this new presort, the automation pieces must continue to bear a barcode at the ZIP+4 or delivery point level; however, the new regulations state that the Presorted pieces must now bear a 5-digit barcode. For Periodical mailings containing firm packages, the firm packages will continue to count as one piece, regardless of the number of copies contained in the firm package. The firm packages must be accompanied by, though physically separate from, enough automation and/or Presorted pieces to satisfy the minimum package requirements. The rate assignment for pieces in a co-package mailing will continue to be based on the automation or Presorted designations, as appropriate. The documentation for the mailing must indicate the number of automation rate and the number of Presort rate pieces in each package. This new addition will be available with the release of MailStream Plus 6.3.3. The complete DMM text was published in Postal Bulletin 22064 (11/29/2001). The next Local User Group meeting for your area is just around the corner. These meetings give you the opportunity to meet with other users and discuss the latest "hot topics" concerning Group 1 products and the industry as a whole. Mark your calendars, attend a meeting, and bring valuable information back to your company. 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
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