Move Update Penalties will begin January 4, 2010
According to the USPS, the penalty for not having your list meet Move Update standards will begin January 4, 2010. The penalty will be 7 cents per piece for Standard Mail mailings that do not comply with the Move Update standards. Move update provides a tool for customers to ensure that their message gets to the right addresses. The Move Update requirements took affect on November 23, 2008 but the USPS has not applied a penalty currently, for noncompliance, but will begin the penalty phase on January 4, 2010. It is my understanding that the penalty will be on the entire mailing and not just on the bad addresses. Your list can be cleaned up in several ways but I recommend the NCOA (National Change of Address) update. We offer the NCOAlink update at Burns Mailing & Printing, Inc. and it is free to nonprofits who print and mail with Burns. For more information on NCOAlink update call or email me, Phyllis Burns. 865 584-2265 and email phyllis@burnsmp.com.
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Thank you, we will always put up new information on things that are changing at the USPS, and they change very often. Our customers appreciate that they don’t have to keep up with the ever changing regulations at the Post Office, because we do it for them.