PENNSYLVANIA AREA

Location:	UGI Utilities, Inc., 225 Morgantown Road, Reading, Pennsylvania
Date:	Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Time:	9:00 a.m.
Topic:	This meeting will be a class for CODE-1 Plus given by Rob Sayne, Group 1 Software
Contact:	Susan Miller - smmiller@ugi.com and Dennis Bratcher - dbratcher@dimarkinc.com

Delivery Point Validation, or DPV, has been released and sold to several Group 1 accounts with success and satisfaction. Over 100 existing Group 1 accounts have the system installed and are finding the validation of the files to be quite an eye-opener. Marketers are uncovering addressing issues with trusted files that have been used for years. Non-deliverable records averaging from 2.5% to nearly 15% have been reported. One marketer found that with nearly 2% of the invoices undeliverable, their company was losing on expedited cash flow due to delayed receipt of the bills. Another vendor studied their non-deliverables and found that DPV is very cost-effective when they took into account the cost of misdirected, or wasted, mail pieces sent by Standard Mail. The mail pieces that were thought to have been delivered, never made it to the delivery point.

Other businesses, such as mortgage and insurance companies are reviewing DPV's value. We expect some of the modeling and automated credit routines to be updated and linked into DPV's technology. Early real-time DPV testing continues to show promising results. For more information on DPV, contact your local sales representative or visit http://www.g1.com/solutions/ds.asp?DS_ID=124&Category_ID=4.

*Group 1 is a non-exclusive Licensee of the United States Postal Service. The price at which Group 1 is offering DPV is not established, controlled, or approved by the USPS or the United States government.

The Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Software Evaluation Recognition Program (SERP) has been designed in consultation with software developers and the mailing industry to evaluate Letter Carrier Presortation (LCP) and Address Accuracy software. The recognition process determines the software's accuracy in sorting address file(s) according to the Presortation Technical Specifications. SERP is open to in-house or commercial software developers who want their software programs recognized by CPC. Mailers with recognized software may take advantage of presort incentive rates. This program evaluates and recognizes presortation software products manufactured by developers and mailers; however, this program does not guarantee the presortation software product's performance.

Letter Carrier Presortation is a batch process that assigns the correct delivery mode details to each address and, in turn, sequences, groups, provides label information for groupings, sequences the groupings within containers, and provides label information for containers.

SortStream Canada is recognized in all CPC SERP Recognition Categories: Incentive Lettermail, Addressed Admail, Dimensional Addressed Admail, Publications Mail, Monotainer/Pallet Make-up, Brick-piling, and FSA Restructure Processing. This product also provides all of the required, as well as optional, features in the SERP recognition program. It produces the Mailing Summary, labels/ facing slips, Support Brick-piling, Monotainer/Pallet Make-up, and FSA Restructuring. This product is made available on multiple platforms and supports nearly every computing environment.

Group 1's SortStream Canada is one of the three products recognized in all categories. The other vendors only support PC-based architecture. Group 1 clients on maintenance for SortStream Canada will automatically get this approved software, due to ship in the mid-to-late September time frame. To obtain more information, please contact your local sales representative or email info@g1.com.

Have you been to visit the FAQ section of the Group 1 Web site? If you haven't, you may want to 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 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.

What states does the U.S. CODE-1 Plus product cover?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

What is the benefit in using the CONFRM parameter record?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

Can MailStream Plus 6.3.4 generate a unique Job ID number for Mail.dat files?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

How do I resolve an error code 10055 on my application while connecting to CODE-1 Plus Client/Server for address matching?

Please click here for the answer to this question.

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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.