POSTAL SAVINGS

The following is an overview of the services that Centron offers that are required by the United States Postal Service (USPS), as well as optional services, to improve your address integrity, save you money on postage costs, and expedite your mail delivery.

Pre-Mailing Services

• Undeliverable Addresses with invalid addresses are pulled from the mailing and reported back to you, which saves you money for the production costs and reduces your return mail.
• Non-Automation Qualified Addresses that did not qualify for the optimum automation postage rates are identified and reported back to you for correction.  These statements are mailed.
• Address Element Correction (AEC) is an optional service that is offered by the United States Postal Service.  This address quality improvement service focuses on correcting those addresses that did not qualify for optimum postage automation rates.  These corrected addresses will lower your postage costs for future mailings.
• Move Update Processing is a service that identifies the new addresses for people who have moved and filed a permanent change of address notification with the USPS.  Your statements will be mailed to the new addresses and this address change is reported back to you.  This service reduces your return mail and gets these mail pieces delivered to the correct addresses.
• Centron has an on-site USPS Post Office (Business Mail Entry Detached Mail Unit) where postal employees qualify, test, accept, and certify your mail on a daily basis.  This service expedites your mail delivery cycle.

Post-Mailing Services

Even after all of the address hygiene processes are performed previous to your mail pieces being mailed, a percentage of those mail pieces will be returned to you as Undeliverable As Addressed (UAA). To assist you in managing this returned mail, Centron offers a convenient and cost-effective Return Mail Handling Service. Centron's mailing address is printed on your mail pieces and any mail returns are received at Centron instead of being returned to you. Centron then processes each of your returned mail pieces. A data file can be created and returned to you for updating your database. A file can also be uploaded to a service to perform a more exhaustive search of specialized databases to obtain the most recent address for an undeliverable mail piece. You can benefit by reducing your internal labor costs associated with managing return mail, reduced costs associated with remailings to invalid addresses and in allowing your staff to spend more time focusing on core business issues.