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Mailing Solutions, Inc.
173 Washington Street
West Warwick, RI 02893-5015
Phone: 401.822.2513
Fax: 401.490.7696

Data Services

CASS Cert. Presort Processing
The first step in reducing postage cost is to make sure the address records of your mailing list are within the standards set by the U.S. Postal Service. Mailing Solutions uses CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) certified software approved by the USPS. We repair recognizable addresses that are incorrect, and standardize them to meet these USPS specifications.

Then we append proper ZIP +4 and carrier route codes, plus all other required USPS endorsements.

Finally, we presort your list -- arranging all the addresses in a sequence that meets USPS regulations. And we produce the documentation needed to obtain your postal discounts and ensure deliverability.

Merge/Purge
We combine (merge) two or more lists, and remove (purge) the names and addresses that appear more than once. This gives you a clean list, so you don't waste money mailing to duplicate records.

Not all merge/purge software and processing are the same!

Some programs delete only identical matches -- for example, "123 Elm Street" and "123 Elm Street." They might not identify "123 E. Elm St." and "123 Elm Street" as a match.

Other programs might think "37 Fulton Avenue" and "37 Fullerton Avenue" are a match when, in fact, they are two different locations.

Mailing Solutions' cutting-edge merge/purge software standardizes and corrects all possible addresses in your lists, then creates a special merge/purge sequence to eliminate the true duplicates and keep the good addresses.

We can even identify sound-alike names ("Dennis" and "Denis," for example) at the same address and eliminate the duplicate.

We can give you reports showing precisely where duplicates appeared and what we eliminated. This is important when you are renting lists and have a "net name" arrangement with the list owner.

Data Entry
Thinking of sending out a mailing, but concerned about not having your mailing list in electronic format? Because we know your time is valuable and you probably don't want to spend it typing names and addresses into the computer, we offer data entry services. At Mailing Solutions we can take your typed or hand written records and have them entered into a computer file. We believe our rates for this are very competitive; particularly when comparing them to the time it would take you to do it yourself.

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