Zip+4 encoding and correction
Enhances the precision and efficiency of mail delivery in the United States. By adding a four-digit extension to the standard five-digit ZIP code, it narrows down geographic areas to specific buildings, blocks, or even floors, enabling faster and more accurate sorting and routing by USPS.
Presort & Barcoding
Presorting and barcoding mail pieces that meet postal quantity requirements significantly reduces postage costs by streamlining the USPS processing workload. When mail is presorted b ZIP+4 codes and barcoded, it bypasses manual sorting steps, allowing the post office to process it more efficiently using automated systems.
Address Standardization
Address standardization ensures that addresses are formatted correctly to postal service guidelines, which is crucial for direct mail campaigns. This process reduces undeliverable mail, saving business money by avoiding costs associated with returned mail and qualifying for postal discounts. It also saves time by enhancing delivery accuracy, reducing the need for resending, and maintaining up-to-date customer records for more efficient campaigns.
Enhance Carrier Routing
There's cost savings when meeting USPS guidelines in enhancing carrier routing. Sorting mail by carrier route, allows mailers to qualify for presort postage discounts. This can significantly reduce mailing costs, especially for bulk mailings meeting quantities minimums like 200 pieces or 50 pounds. Proper addressing with ZIP+4 codes and automation compatibility further minimizes errors, avoiding expenses from undeliverable mail.
CASS & NCOA Certification
CASS (Coding Accuracy Support Systems) and NCOA (National Change of Address) are tools provided by the United State Postal Service (USPS) to enhance direct mail campaigns. The primary benefit of CASS and NCOA is reducing undeliverable mail, which directly impacts campaign effectiveness. CASS ensures addresses are complete and correct. NCOA updates addresses, improving the average database, which helps maintain customer communication and prevents loss of valuable contacts.
Remove Duplicates & Undeliverable Addresses
Direct Mail is a marketing strategy where businesses send physical mail to potential customers, and maintaining an accurate mailing list is crucial for it's success. Removing duplicate and undeliverable addresses helps ensure that mail reaches the intended recipients, saving costs and improving campaign effectiveness.
Custom Reporting
Custom reporting is essential for clients as it provides transparency and actionable insights into their direct mail campaigns. It ensures that postage is used optimally, helping clients manage budgets effectively. Custom reporting also allows clients to track delivery performance, which is vital for assessing campaign effectiveness.
Distribution & Dropship Reports
In accordance with USPS guidelines lies in their role in ensuring efficient, cost effective, and complaint mail delivery processes. These reports provide critical data on mail volume, destination entry points, and transportation logistics, enabling mailers to optimize distribution strategies and quality discounts, such as those under Seamless Acceptance program.
Merge & Purge Mailing Lists
Maintaining data hygiene through merge-purge processes and adhering to USPS guidelines for distribution and dropship reports is critical for efficient and compliant mailing operations. Merge-Purge mailing lists eliminate duplicate entries, update outdated addresses, and remove undeliverable records, ensuring cleaner data that enhances targeting accuracy and reduces postage waste.
Mail Tracker Report
Direct mail campaigns, when paired with robust mail tracking are vital for ensuring effective delivery and maximizing response rate returns. Mail tracking aligned with USPS guidelines for distribution and drop shipment reports, allows mailers to monitor the journey of each piece, confirming delivery to recipients/ homes and providing insights into mail volume logistics.
Secured Data Transfer
We prioritize the privacy and security of you and your clients' data. To ensure your data is protected during transfers, we utilize secure protocols such as SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), which encrypts your information to safeguard it from unauthorized access.
Data Hygiene
Good data hygiene minimizes returned mail, reduces wasted resources, and improves response rates by reaching the intended audience accurately. At AMi Direct we provide Upper-Lower Case, Address Standardization and Remove Undeliverable Addresses maintaining accurate, up-to-date, and properly formatted mailing lists to ensure effective and efficient delivery of marketing materials. Which can improve campaign performance, reduce costs, and enhance deliverability.
CASS & Zip+4 Encoding
CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) and ZIP+4 Encoding are critical components of the United States Postal Service (USPS) mailing process designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of mail delivery, particularly for businesses and bulk mailers. By leveraging CASS and ZIP+4 Encoding, mailers can significantly improve the efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness of ther USPS mailings.
NCOA Certification
NCOA (National Change of Address) is a tool provided by the United State Postal Service (USPS) to enhance direct mail campaigns. The primary benefit NCOA is reducing undeliverable mail, which directly impacts campaign effectiveness. NCOA updates addresses, improving the average database, which helps maintain customer communication and prevents loss of valuable contacts.
Enhance Carrier Routing
There's cost savings when meeting USPS guidelines in enhancing carrier routing. Sorting mail by carrier route, allows mailers to qualify for presort postage discounts. This can significantly reduce mailing costs, especially for bulk mailings meeting quantities minimums like 200 pieces or 50 pounds. Proper addressing with ZIP+4 codes and automation compatibility further minimizes errors, avoiding expenses from undeliverable mail.
DMA & Deceased Suppression
DMA Suppression: Process identifies individuals in your list(s) who have registered with the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Mail Preference Service (MPS) to indicate that they do not wish to receive unsolicited mail.
Deceased Suppression: Process identifies deceased individuals in your list(s) using a database derived from Social Security Administration records and other proprietary sources.
Lowest Presorted Postal Rates
Presorting and barcoding your mail offer significant benefits and cost savings by streamlining the mailing process and securing discounted postage rates form the USPS. By presorting mails for USPS submission, businesses reduce the postal services processing workload, qualifying for automation-rate discounts that can save up to 20-30% on postage costs. Embrace presorting to cut costs, boost efficiency, and enhance your direct mail campaigns.
SCF Destination & Dropship Analysis
SCF Destination Mailing refers to a mailing strategy in the USPS system where mail is transported by the mailer to a Sectional Center Facility (SCF), a processing and distribution center that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes. By dropping mail at an SCF closer to its final destination, mailers can receive discounted postage rates compared to mailing from a local post. These reports provide critical data on mail volume, destination entry points, and transportation logistics, enabling mailers to optimize distribution strategies and quality discounts, such as those under Seamless Acceptance program.
Dedupe / Merge Purge / Suppression
Maintaining data hygiene through merge-purge processes and adhering to USPS guidelines for distribution and dropship reports is critical for efficient and compliant mailing operations. Merge-Purge mailing lists eliminate duplicate entries, update outdated addresses, and remove undeliverable records, ensuring cleaner data that enhances targeting accuracy and reduces postage waste.
Custom Reporting
Custom reporting is essential for clients as it provides transparency and actionable insights into their direct mail campaigns. It ensures that postage is used optimally, helping clients manage budgets effectively. Custom reporting also allows clients to track delivery performance, which is vital for assessing campaign effectiveness.
Specialized Programming
At AMi Direct, we offer specialized programming services for additional data work that needs to be done to your direct mail, including Source-Mail coding, Upgrade Table programming, OCR-A Scanline integration, and much more, tailored to meet our clients' unique needs.
Mail Tracker Report
Direct mail campaigns, when paired with robust mail tracking are vital for ensuring effective delivery and maximizing response rate returns. Mail tracking aligned with USPS guidelines for distribution and drop shipment reports, allows mailers to monitor the journey of each piece, confirming delivery to recipients/ homes and providing insights into mail volume logistics.
Nail your Campaigns with our Data Services
Our data team will work with you to deliver clean, postal-compliant data that's pure perfection.
With our precision-driven solutions, your message will hit the right mailboxes every time.
Great data means great results. Trust us to elevate campaigns and boost your ROI!
BOOST YOUR SUCCESS WITH OUR PRECISION DATA SERVICE!
Clean data is Crucial for Successful Mailing Campaigns
It helps improve deliverability rates, protect budgets, and enhance return on investment (ROI). Poor quality data can lead to lost revenue and damage to sender reputation.
