NCOA (National Change Of Address)

Read a description of the NCOA process at the US Postal Service website here.

http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressservices/moveupdate/changeaddress.htm

In plain English, when people move, they fill out those little forwarding address cards at the Post Office. Those cards go to a central database maintained by the Postal Service in Memphis, TN. Once a week, NCOA licensees (like us) receive an updated list of all the peope who have moved in the last 18 or 48 months depending on the type of license thay have. Licensees can then match your list of customers, donors or contacts against the list of movers and update your list with the new addresses of anyone appearing on the mover list.

It used to be merely a good idea to do this and keep your list up to date. It is now mandatory for anyone receiving a bulk mail postage discount from the Postal Service. Why is this now mandatory? Because the Post office is no longer interested in dealing with all the un-deliverable mail they were saddled with from outdated mailing lists.

Please visit our NCOA processing site at ListCleaners.com to submit your list for processing or to learn more about the process.