The U.S. Postal Service provides a discount to mailers who can "automate" the labels for their mailing. To receive Automation rates, the mailer must print a bar code representation of the mailing address on the label. The closer the mailer can come to pinpointing the mailing address, the higher the discount. A higher discount is given to those mailers who can provide the carrier route and the delivery point. These fields identify the actual postal carrier route and the actual place of delivery along that route. The mailer receives discounts for bundling the mail pieces when 10 or more pieces go to a same 3-digit or 5-digit zip code.
The iMIS Postal modules provide you with the ability to add Zip+4, carrier route, and delivery point to the addresses in your database and to sort and print your addresses so that you may receive the maximum allowable discounts. To accomplish this, iMIS has partnered with the industry leader in postal software, Group 1. Group 1 has developed software called AccuMail to CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) certify addresses. In order to certify an address, it is compared with AccuMail's national database of addresses. If the address "matches" an address in the database or can be modified slightly to match an address, the Zip+4, carrier route, and delivery point are added to the address record within your iMIS database. Optionally, the county name and congressional district can be added to your iMIS database. AccuMail prints the U.S. Post Office form 3553, which is required to receive the automation rates.
In addition to the ability to CASS certify your iMIS database, the integration of AccuMail with iMIS gives you two more features. You can verify or match addresses as they are entered into the iMIS database or anytime there is a change of address. You can also view the addresses that don't match and browse the national database of addresses to correct them.
Group 1's ProSort will organize and print name and address labels from your iMIS database so that you get the maximum discount possible. ProSort is PAVE (Presort Accuracy Validation and Evaluation) certified software and groups the labels by zip codes and carrier routes and prints the bar codes on the labels. It also prints the U.S. Post Office required forms that are required for claiming the PAVE automation rates. ProSort is capable of calculating your savings on each mailing.
Note: U.S. Post Office rules and regulations are discussed in detail in Publication 28, USPS Addressing Standard Guidelines and Publication 25, Designing Letter Mail. Contact a postal business center for complete services.
The following sections discuss how to use the AccuMail and ProSort features with iMIS. Refer to the AccuMail and ProSort manuals that accompanied your software for complete product information.
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