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National Change of Address. National Change of Address (NCOALink) "is a secure dataset of approximately 160 million permanent change-of-address (COA) records consisting of the names and addresses of individuals, families and businesses who have filed a change-of-address with the USPS". [1] It is maintained by the United States Postal Service ...
Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) is a service offered by the United States Postal Service to update mailing addresses when a street is renamed or the address is updated for 911. In the case of 911, the address is changed from a rural route format to an urban/city route format. E.G. RR 2 BOX 8, SOME CITY, TX would become 2601 BELMONT ...
Nixie (postal) A Nixie is a name given by the United States Postal Service to a piece of mail which is undeliverable as addressed. It is derived from "nix", English slang for the German nichts ("nothing"), and "-ie", an item or a thing. ("Nix" used in English c. 1780–1790, "Nixie" c. 1880–1885.) In the 20th century, the term "Nixie clerk ...
The Coding Accuracy Support System ( CASS) enables the United States Postal Service (USPS) to evaluate the accuracy of software that corrects and matches street addresses. CASS certification is offered to all mailers, service bureaus, and software vendors that would like the USPS to evaluate the quality of their address-matching software and ...
Address Management System (AMS) is the United States Postal Service master database of deliverable addresses. Address-checking tools using AMS provide address standardization , as well as city/state and ZIP Code lookup features.
States may also request National Change of Address (NCOA) reports using official data from the US Postal Service and, after federal general elections, participate in a fraud check to see if voters cast ballots in more than one state. ERIC also, by matching voter data against motor vehicle licensing data, identifies individuals who are not yet ...
An act to improve and modernize the postal service, to reorganize the Post Office Department, and for other purposes. The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 was a law passed by the United States Congress that abolished the then U.S. Post Office Department, which was a part of the Cabinet, and created the U.S. Postal Service, a corporation -like ...
The page also discusses how movers may change their address and how it plays into the NCOA process. The form for changing one's address is provided in the References section. The page is geared not for marketing, but for general information about the system. Seachellie4 19:56, 7 July 2008 (UTC) Reply