If you are receiving NewsCast and read about a Local User Group meeting in your area, share the information with others in your organization. Local User Groups are a great source of knowledge and experience. These meetings are also a great way to share ideas and meet fellow users - visit or join one at the next opportunity.

AUSTIN AREA

Location:	Department of Public Safety, 5805 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, Texas
Date:	Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Time:	9:00 a.m.
Topic:	This will be the initial meeting for the group.
Contact:	Jim Bosquez - jim.bosquez@txdps.state.tx.us

FLORIDA AREA

Location:	Time Customer Service, 1 N Dale Mabry Hwy Fl 13, Tampa, Florida
Date:	Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Time:	9:00 a.m.
Topic:	This will be the initial meeting for the group.
Contact:	Jeff Luther - Jeffrey.Luther@custserv.com

NORTH CAROLINA

Location:	The Charlotte Observer, 600 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina
Date:	Thursday, February 20, 2003
Time:	9:00 a.m.
Topic:	TBA
Contact:	Kimberly Sherman - KJSHERMA@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM

OHIO AREA

Location:	Banc One Center, 1111 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio
Date:	Thursday, December 12, 2002
Time:	11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Topic:	TBA
Contact:	Scott Saffell - scott_w_saffell@bankone.com and Mitch Williams - MWilliams@DirectGraphics.com

PENNSYLVANIA AREA

Location:	UGI Utilities, Inc., 225 Morgantown Road, Reading, Pennsylvania
Date:	The meeting scheduled for November 13, 2002, has been postponed and will be rescheduled for early next year.
Contact:	Susan Miller - smmiller@ugi.com and Dennis Bratcher - dbratcher@dimarkinc.com

Group 1 has added Access Keys to our license managed products. An Access Key is an encrypted 16 to 21-byte key used during software installation. The effect of this key is isolated to new customers, existing customers buying a product for the first time, and customers trialing a license managed product. The access key (for example, 09-1599895369-CP), when requested during the installation process, can be found in two places. It is displayed on your packing list for the product shipment appended to the licensed managed product's description. It is also found in the emailed shipping notification in conjunction with the shipment of your product. In the event that you purchase/trial multiple license-managed products, you will receive a unique Access Key for each of the products.

If you cannot locate the Access Key when required, please contact Group 1 Technical Support by email at support@g1.com or by phone at 1-800-367-6950.

Take a look at some of the recent updates and additions that have been made to this valuable section of our Web site. The FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) are listed by product so you can easily find the questions that apply to your specific products. There is also a link to the FAQ Submission Form if you have a question/answer you would like to have considered. Below are a few of the most recent additions to this area.

When I look at the output calling area from C6DBRLKP, how can I tell if the address returned is a civic address or a non-civic address?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

Why is CODE-1 Plus returning the highrise +4 instead of the street record +4 when my input address does not have a secondary designator?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

Calling G1CP under release 2.5 is causing a File Status 35 Error on ZIPIDX. How can I resolve this?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

For a complete list of all available FAQs, please visit the FAQ area of the Support site at www.g1.com/support/faq.

The Group 1 Software HotData Team is pleased to announce the general availability of Group 1 Phone Services. Follow this link to www.g1.com/demos/interactive to see our interactive demo that shows these new offerings along with some of our core products.

Group 1’s phone services can help business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies tackle complex data quality problems throughout the enterprise. Two phone services are available:

• Telephone number append accepts a name (consumer or business) and partial address information and returns a full name, complete address, telephone number, and a confidence score. If the match is ambiguous, we can return up to five candidate matches ranked by confidence score.
• Reverse telephone number append accepts a telephone number and returns the corresponding name and address.

Optimized for data quality tasks, where the clean information re-enters the original application, we return mixed case addresses that conform to United States Postal Service (USPS) guidelines. These services are available both in real-time and batch mode via HotData, Group 1’s hosted services infrastructure, a one-stop shop for all your data quality and augmentation needs.

For additional information, please contact your Group 1 Account Executive.

With the recent release of CODE-1 Plus version 2.5.1, a newly created option has been made available for major mailers, marketers, and customers with large databases using the Delivery Point Validation (DPV) to increase the speed and processing for files of any considerable size. This option was created with the larger user in mind. The system loads DPV tables into memory and processes records considerably faster than in the earlier releases. Our major mailers on mainframe systems needed to have DPV running millions of records per hour and this option was designed with that goal in mind. Actual performance and speed depends greatly on the input data ZIP density, numbers of records in the file, and system availability; so results can vary. The DPV system allows mailers to determine whether an address is truly a delivery point serviced by the USPS. This option is available to all clients currently on maintenance.

. . . Beginning in November, the USPS may begin to charge penalties for all First Class mail that does not comply with the "Move Update" rules. This decision has been made because tests performed in the Southeastern region showed that some mailers are not using the United States Postal Service's "Move Update" procedures.

. . . On January 13, 2003, the Canada Post Corporation will implement price changes to Incentive Lettermail, Addressed Admail, and Publications mail. Please note that there will be no price changes for Dimensional Addressed Admail. The changes can be found on Canada Post's Web site (www.canadapost.ca) at the following locations:

• Incentive Lettermail - www.canadapost.ca/business/offerings/incentive_lettermail/pdf/letterm ail_prices_0103-e.pdf
• Addressed Admail - www.canadapost.ca/business/offerings/addressed_admail/pdf/aa_prices_0 103-e.pdf
• Publications Mail - www.canadapost.ca/business/offerings/publications_mail/pdf/pubmail_pr ices_0103-e.pdf
• Dimensional Addressed Admail - www.canadapost.ca/business/offerings/dimensional_addressed_admail/can /about_documents_0103-e.asp

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Below are some links that may be of interest to our customers:

Group 1's Web Page - http://www.g1.com. The Group 1 Software Web site provides customers with valuable information concerning different areas of the company. From this Web site, you can access education information, recent press releases, support, and much more useful information.

USPS Web Site Business Section - http://www.usps.com/smallbiz

The USPS Web Site - www.usps.gov. This Web site allows customers to check out the latest information regarding postage rates and fees, news and events in the postal community, locations of local post offices, and provides various other links. There is also a place where postal service customers can track the status of a package or access other online mailing forms.

Canada Post - http://www.canadapost.ca/splash.asp. This is the direct link to the Canada Post Web site.

USPS PostalOne - http://www.pilot.uspspostalone.com. This is the direct link to the USPS PostalOne Web site.

USPS Rapid Information Bulletin Board System - http://ribbs.usps.gov. This is the National Customer Support Center for the United States Postal Service. It provides you mail-service updates, current weather conditions, and other interesting facts pertaining to the Postal Service.

Postal Rate Commission - http://www.prc.gov. The Postal Rate Commission Web site provides information about the organization, its function and procedures, along with postal rates and fees. It also provides a location where you can voice your opinion to the Consumer Advocate.

Nonprofit Mailers - http://www.nonprofitmailers.org. The Alliance is the primary representative of nonprofit mailers before the Postal Rate Commission, at the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Headquarters, and on Capitol Hill.

Postcom - http://www.postcom.org. Postcom is the Association for Postal Commerce. Its Web site provides you with up-to-date information regarding what is going on in the "postal world." It includes links to other helpful sites, as well as a place to contact your US Senators or Representatives.