USPS awards first NCOA Link Full Service Provider License to Anchor Computer

Anchor Computer have been awarded the first NCOALink™ Full Service Provider license issued by the USPS (United States Postal Service). Using secure data store technology the “Full Service Provider” NCOALink™ database provides mailers with more change-of-address moves, since it uses 48 months of up-to-date address information, versus the “Limited Service Provider” database that provides only 18 months of address information. National Change of Address (NCOA) identifies customers who have moved, improving mail deliverability and reducing the cost and time required to forward mail. The existing NCOA program will be replaced by NCOALink™ on September 30th 2004. In the interim mailers can
process their address files through Anchor using either the existing NCOA program or use the new NCOALink™ program.

NCOALink™ is the third product introduced by the USPS that allows mailers to realize unprecedented address quality improvement. The first products were DPV™ (Delivery Point Validation) and DSF2™ (Delivery Sequence File Second Generation). For more information on NCOALink™ and our other address hygiene data processing services please visit www.AnchorComputer.com.

For resellers and end-users who want to process their change-of-addresses in-house, Anchor Software’s new USPS certified MaxMover™ interface software is available. Resellers can obtain either a Limited Service Provider (18 months) or a Full Service Provider (48 months) license – and use MaxMover™ to access encrypted NCOALink™ change-of-address information. Organizations that process their own data only can become an End-User licensee that will provide 18 months of change of address data. The current *FASTforward® Mailing List Correction (MLC) program will no longer be available after September 30th 2005. For more
information on our new MaxMover™ software, please visit www.AnchorComputerSoftware.com