Comments on: Address Association Organization Call – Help Keep It Clean http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/address-association-organization-call-help-keep-it-clean Information, opinions, and support on international privacy, marketing, and postal issues Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Merry Law http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/address-association-organization-call-help-keep-it-clean/comment-page-1#comment-19 Merry Law Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:22:44 +0000 http://prescottreport.com/?p=979#comment-19 My business card spells out Street and East. I guess my excuse is that it looks better that way but it's not the USPS's preference. For the countries where they exist, the postal databases can be quite expensive. UAA mail can be less expensive than international validation, particularly for smaller quantities to any one country. One's customers or potential customers can also contribute to the problem. It's not always the mailer: A customer (professional association) asked today about postal codes in South Korea: they can't seem to get them from their correspondents there. Last week a customer (publisher) "corrected" her U.K. mailing address with information that does not match the Royal Mail format for that address. One Latin American postal operator provided slightly different addressing information to WorldVu and the UPU, and neither exactly matches the information on their Web site. And it's not always the address: Yesterday I got an order from a long-time U.K. customer who says a first class letter mailed in the U.S. on December 7 reached them this week -- 11 weeks later. The address is correct. Education will help, advocacy with the posts will help. I am very interested. (And I am looking at my business cards again.) My business card spells out Street and East. I guess my excuse is that it looks better that way but it’s not the USPS’s preference.

For the countries where they exist, the postal databases can be quite expensive. UAA mail can be less expensive than international validation, particularly for smaller quantities to any one country.

One’s customers or potential customers can also contribute to the problem. It’s not always the mailer:
A customer (professional association) asked today about postal codes in South Korea: they can’t seem to get them from their correspondents there.

Last week a customer (publisher) “corrected” her U.K. mailing address with information that does not match the Royal Mail format for that address.

One Latin American postal operator provided slightly different addressing information to WorldVu and the UPU, and neither exactly matches the information on their Web site.

And it’s not always the address:
Yesterday I got an order from a long-time U.K. customer who says a first class letter mailed in the U.S. on December 7 reached them this week — 11 weeks later. The address is correct.

Education will help, advocacy with the posts will help. I am very interested. (And I am looking at my business cards again.)

]]> By: Ellie Alexander http://prescottreport.com/http:/prescottreport.com/address-association-organization-call-help-keep-it-clean/comment-page-1#comment-18 Ellie Alexander Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:35:10 +0000 http://prescottreport.com/?p=979#comment-18 Even here in the States, the issue of addressing is huge. The US Government is one of the worse offenders, and most of the issues downstream (feeds from these government agencies that can't be changed due to legal restrictions) could be solved with appropriate front-end software. And don't even get me started on the fact that businesses of all sizes continue to have incorrect (for mailing purposes) addresses on their business cards! Even here in the States, the issue of addressing is huge. The US Government is one of the worse offenders, and most of the issues downstream (feeds from these government agencies that can’t be changed due to legal restrictions) could be solved with appropriate front-end software. And don’t even get me started on the fact that businesses of all sizes continue to have incorrect (for mailing purposes) addresses on their business cards!

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