Express NCOA can now update your Canadian mailing lists with the latest mover
information and prepare your mail to qualify for discounted postage rates using
Canada Post’s Incentive Lettermail, Addressed Admail and Publication Mail services
Address Accuracy corrects and standardizes your Canadian addresses to meet the
Addressing requirements of Canada Post Corporation (CPC). Addresses are corrected
by fixing misspellings, stripping out unnecessary punctuation marks, verifying the
city, province and postal code. We also fill in missing address elements where possible
such as addresses that are not assigned postal codes. Your address file can then
be matched against CPC’s National Change of Address database to provide you with
new addresses of Canadians that have moved.
We also offer (as additional services) Merge Purge and Postal Presortation to
remove duplicates and presort your mailing for insertion into the Canadian mail
stream using the service of your choice.
To qualify for Incentive Lettermail, Addressed Admail and Publication Mail rates,
mailers must meet certain Canada Post Corporation "Address Accuracy Program" requirements
(This is similar to the USPS® requirement of utilizing CASS™ certified address matching
software). The Address Accuracy standard in Canada is 95%, which means that at least
95% of the addresses on a mailing list must be valid addresses. This standard must
be achieved otherwise a rate adjustment is applied to the mail pieces with inaccurate
addresses. We process and standardize a mailing list through Canada Post recognized
Address Validation and Correction software, and a Statement of Accuracy (SOA) is
provided to report the percentage of accurate addresses when mail is deposited with
Canada Post. You are required to keep a valid copy of the SOA on file in the event
Canada Post requests a copy. Mailers must also generate a new SOA once a year for
each customer database or on the contents of a merged database. For more information,
please download the Canada Post – Address Accuracy Program – Customer Guide and/or
the Canadian Addressing Guide.