What are some of the new postal products on the market today available to us mailers?
Two new services immediately come to mind: AEC II – Address Element Correction II. After running CASS on your database, a mailer typically has 2 to 10% of their file that doesn’t match the CASS database. These are records that have addressing errors that may be cause for Undeliverable As Addressed (UAA) returned mail. In the past, mailers have either had to bypass mailing, drop the records, manually correct them, or send them the USPS for their automated AEC program. The USPS has recently added AEC II. After the automated correction process, mailers can have the remaining bad address records reviewed and corrected using Carrier force knowledge. Carriers within each Zip code will review and make the corrections to the database, and provide the information back to the mailer for about .25 per correction. The Intelligent Mail barcode. The new barcode, formerly known as the 4-state barcode, can provide a wealth of information back to the mailer. Ultimately replacing the current automation
