QualifiedAddress.com PAVE Certification

As many of you know, we have been working on a web based on demand PAVE solution for our customers. In keeping with our model of being a SAAS company, we will be the fist company to offer CASS, PAVE, and other mailing related services on demand in a software as a service model.

For those that are not quite sure what PAVE means, here you go:

The Presort Accuracy, Validation, and Evaluation (PAVE) program is a process designed in cooperation with the mailing industry to evaluate presort software and determine its accuracy in sorting address files according to Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) standards. PAVE is available only to software and hardware developers, i.e., companies that develop presort software or manufacture presorting equipment for resale or internal use. Participation in the program is purely voluntary.

Although this program evaluates and validates presort products manufactured by developers, PAVE does not guarantee acceptance of mail prepared using PAVE-certified hardware and/or software; however, it does provide national approval of computer-generated facsimiles of United States Postal Service (USPS) postage statements, standardized documentation, and other presort documentation.

The USPS defines a PAVE-certified software product as a presorting product with source code specifically written to operate on a particular platform or operating system and assigned a specific version number. Many products use different language compilers to process files within different operating systems or on different hardware platforms. Therefore, to maintain the highest standards of quality assurance, PAVE will certify each product that operates on a particular platform at the current version number. One platform will be tested completely according to the test files ordered, and additional platforms will be tested randomly. The developer may either submit all platforms or just a few for certification. PAVE will evaluate each platform of the presort product separately and will issue a certificate for each platform that meets the PAVE accuracy requirements.

Companies use PAVE to effectively lower their mailing costs, and in some cases quite dramatically. We are close to gaining our PAVE certification and launching additional new products.

By the way; once we are PAVE certified we will be only the 8th company offering PAVE services to customers and the first SAAS model.

Enhancing And Improving Your Mailing Lists

Would you like to improve the quality of the data in your address database? Submit your address list to one of our mailing list data enhancement services. Qualified Address offers a line of services that will help you improve your marketing and communication while reducing your costs at the same time.



Qualified Address Scrubbing
Address verification and standardization batch processing service.

• Corrects and standardizes addresses in your address list
• Adds missing ZIP Codes
• Converts 5-digit ZIP Codes to ZIP+4 Codes
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Web Based - Real Time Solutions

We deliver address and mailing list services as a secure on-demand solution. Address Verification On Demand lowers your IT costs, enhances your business process flexibility, and increases your profitability. As the only web-based, real-time solution in the industry, we pride ourselves in delivering your data with accuracy and speed.

Do your Canadian addresses exist?

I was reading the other day about some postal facts about Canada. Did you know that Canada Post Corporation processed 11.6 billion parcels and messages, serving more than 31 million Canadians and over 1 million businesses and other institutions. Canada Post collects, processes, and delivers across the whole world as the second-largest country (of course Russia is much bigger). Canada Post delivers to over 14 million addresses in Canada and mail is forwarded to almost every country in the world! Canada Post delivers a ton of mail.

Now with that much mail being thrown around, it's important to keep in mind that there are people and businesses every day that waste their time and money because their mail goes to bad addresses? Zip Code Download has a product that can help with that called Qualified Address Scrubbing. Qualified Address Scrubbing has up to date databases that can validate addresses that you are shipping to. This people and business find addresses that no longer exist or were made up. This product has helped thousands of people and customers, although it may decrease some of Canada's overall mail numbers--in the end it helps your bottom-line. Click here to learn more.

Update on Post Office Closusres

For our customers that are in the Tennessee and Arkansas or areas that ship to Tennessee and Arkansas.

A tornado that ripped through Tennessee yesterday destroyed the Castalian Springs Post Office. All operations have moved to the Gallatin, TN, Post Office 37066. All drop shipments for the Castalian Springs Post Office should be directed to the Gallatin Post Office located at 380 Maple St., Gallatin, TN, 37066.

Service updates for Jackson, TN
North Side Station, Jackson, TN 38305

Window services and the Post Office Box section at the North Side Station at 161 West University Parkway in Jackson, TN, 38305, are closed because there are no lights in the lobby or box area. Residential and business deliveries will take place.

Service updates for Gassville, AR
Gassville, AR 72635

The lobby of the Gassville Post Office, 94 Highway 126 N, Gassville, AR, 72635, sustained extensive tornado damage. Operations have been relocated to the Mountain Home Post Office, AR, 72653. All drop shipments for the Gassville Post Office should be directed to the Mountain Home Post Office located at 975 Coley Dr, Mountain Home, AR, 72653.

Slowing Economy

Bush said earlier today, "it's clear our economy has slowed," just hours after a government report showed a decline in payrolls for the second straight month. Many companies and other organizations have been feeling the burdens of a slowing economy. Some reports state that more companies are laying off people than they have in the last five years. Other companies are doing their best to keep their employess by cutting their costs.

One large cost that is constantly burdening companies and other organizations is the cost of mailings and other similar marketing ploys. Two websites that can help overcome these burdens is www.zipcodedownload.com and www.qualifiedaddress.com. Zip Code Download's and Qualified Address' products can help save companies and organizations thousands and thousands of money is supported by it's parent company Exact Wave.

So, while many companies are cutting employees because of a slowing economy begin cutting costs so that employess don't have to go through the lay-off pains that may be imminent. With an economy that is slowing and moving closer and closer to a recession begin making the best decisions for you and your company by visiting www.zipcodedownload.com and www.qualifiedaddress.com.

Stamp Prices To Increase

Stamp prices will increase 1 cent as well as some other price changes (see chart below). Over the past few years we have seen an increase in stamps and mailing costs as electronic emailing and transfers have become much more popular and we will continue to see the cost of snail mail stamps and supplies increase.

As the costs of snail mail increase it is important not to waste your money, time, and other resources on mail that may never get to your clients. To learn more about how you can save money and time on your mailings visit www.qualifiedaddress.com and zipcodedownload.com.

Changes will be effective May 12, 2008.

Selected Prices & Services	Current	New (Effective May 12)
First-Class Mail Letter (1 oz.)	41¢	42¢
First-Class Mail Letter (2 oz.)	58¢	59¢
Postcard	26¢	27¢
Large Envelope (2 oz.)	97¢	$1.00
Money Orders (up to $500)	$1.05	$1.05
Certified Mail	$2.65	$2.70
First-Class Mail International Letter (1 oz. to Canada and Mexico)	69¢	72¢
First-Class Mail International Letter (1 oz. to other countries)	90¢	94¢

Size and Scope of USPS

We deliver to every home and business in the United States. Every American has access to our services and pays the same postage regardless of where they live or work. We …
Process and deliver more than 213 billion pieces of mail — letters, cards, ads, bills, payments and packages — every year.
· Nearly 703 million pieces per day
· More than 29 million pieces per hour
· More than 488,000 pieces per minute
· More than 8,000 pieces per second
· Deliver mail to more than 300 million people at 146 million homes, businesses and PO Boxes in every state, city and town, and in Puerto Rico, Guam, the American Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
· Add 1.8 million new addresses each year to our delivery network — equivalent to the number of addresses in a city the size of Chicago.
· Serve more than 9 million customers daily at nearly 37,000 Post Offices.
· Have annual operating revenue of nearly $73 billion.
· Are the second-largest employer in the United States.
· Employ nearly 700,000 career employees.
· Pay nearly $2 billion in employee salaries and benefits every two weeks.
· Do not receive tax dollars for operations. We are a self-supporting agency, using the revenue from the sale of postage and products to pay expenses.
· We handle more than 46 percent of the world's card and letter mail volume — delivering more mail to more addresses to a larger geographical area than any other post in the world.
· We move mail using planes, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, bicycles, hovercrafts, subways and even mules.
· We operate the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world with more than 216,000 vehicles driving more than 1.2 billion miles each year and using nearly 121 million gallons of fuel.
· When fuel costs increase one penny, our costs increase $8 million.
· Each letter carrier delivers an average of nearly 2,900 pieces of mail a day to more than 500 addresses.
· In 2006, we processed and delivered 25.9 billion pounds of mail — 85 million pounds per day.
· About 14 percent of the nation’s population moves every year, generating more than 45 million address changes.
· We add an average of 3,500 new deliveries every day.
· We forward more than 2 billion pieces of mail a year.
· Rural carriers drive 3.4 million miles daily to deliver to 37 million addresses.
· We issue nearly 900,000 money orders per day.
· Automated Postal Centers (APCs) are self-service kiosks that provide customers with access to the most frequently purchased postal products and services.
· Customers can purchase stamps at:
· More than 33,000 commercial retail outlets.
· 17,000 banking and credit union ATMs.
· 2,500 APCs.
· Thousands of vending machines located nationwide.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

These words, inscribed at the top of the James A. Farley building in New York City, are considered to be the motto of the Postal Service. In fact, it isn't a motto at all. The phrase is the translation of an ancient Greek work of Herodotus describing the Persian system of mounted carriers, c. 500 B.C.

Source: http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/postalfacts.htm