® Address Quality Strategy Update

Transformation Strategies Reduce Costs Increase Delivery Point Sequencing to 95% Improve Service Reduce UAA by 50% By 2010 our goal is to:

Address Quality Approach  Education/Awareness ●PCC/NPF  Incentives ●OneCode ACS   Requirements ●CASS™/DPV™ Address Quality

Education/Awareness  NPF / PCC / MTAC  USPS Articles  Trade Press Articles  RIBBS CASS Web Site  NCSC  Sales / BSN / BME Address Quality

Initiatives to Reduce UAA  Internet Change-of-Address  MTAC Recommended Best Practices  NCOA Link™ Match Rates  New Temporary Change-of-Address Policy  Address Element Correction I & II  PARS ( Complete Fall 2007) Address Quality

Initiatives to Reduce UAA  CASS with DPV – August 1  Move Update Requirement – Every 3 Months  Implement Move Update Requirement for Standard Mail  OneCodeACS for Use on Flats – available May 1 Address Quality

Future Initiatives to Reduce UAA  WG 104 on Mail List Certification  WG 113 Address/Barcode Requirements for FSS  WG 116 Great addressing to increase value of mail  Implement Mailer-specific UAA Measurement Address Quality

® CASS ™ CYCLE “L” UPDATE

® CASS ™ Cycle “L”  CASS Cycle “L” required for automation discounts beginning August 1, 2007  LACS Link™ processing is a requirement under CASS Cycle “L”  DPV ™ processing is a requirement under CASS Cycle “L”

® Performance:  Full DPV (Hash Table) showed an increase in both CPU and wall clock processing  Testing with flat file DPV proved to reduce that impact significantly  DirectDPV has reduced both CPU and wall clock processing time

® Status:  30 manufactures have passed CASS ™ Cycle L Certification on multiple platforms  1 manufacture have failed certification on 2 platforms A list of CASS vendors is available at

® What’s Next? Move Update Federal Register Notice  Expect to publish this week  30-day comment period  Implementation date will be 18 months from date Federal Register Notice Published

® What’s Next? CASS Cycle M  Require vendor to enable the interface to Suite Link product  Make Suite Link available to customers upon request

® What’s Next? CASS Cycle N  Suite Link required for automation rate mailings

® Questions?