The US Postal Service “Move Update” requirements for standard mail are effective November 23rd, 2008.  What is changing?… those of you who mail Standard Mail Flats or Parcels through UPS Mail Innovations for delivery by the USPS, are required to have methods in place to ensure your business only uses addresses that were updated within the previous 95 days when communicating to your customers. For example, a mailing tendered on Nov. 23rd must bear addresses that were updated no earlier than Aug. 20th.

Why bother checking for accuracy of your address list?  Accurate and updated addresses are required to ensure you maintain current discounted rates after Nov. 23rd.  Consider these statistics:

• 14 percent of Americans change addresses annually.
• 43 million people move each year.
• One out of every six families moves each year.

How many of these people are your customers or members?

UPS Mail Innovations has provided several options for consideration through previous communications regarding these new “Move Update” requirements for Standard Mail.  As your service provider, and mailer of record, we are required to have on file the completed form (PS Form 6014 titled “Certification of Move Update Compliance”) which identifies to us and the US Postal Service, the particular method that you will be using to comply with these new requirements.

To that end, if you have not yet completed and returned the form it is critical that you do so now. 

For more information about the Move Update, please visit http://ribbs.usps.govand click on NCSC Products, Services & Publications, this will take you to the US Postal Service National Customer Support Center and provide the necessary information about this new “Move Update” requirement and information on address hygiene tools can help improve the quality of your mailing lists. 

We are standing by to assist you …..Please contact your account executive or call our Customer Care Department at 1-800-500-2224, #2.

UPS Mail Innovations
Customer Care & Support

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Effective Nov. 23, 2008 the United States Postal Service is extending its efforts to improve the percentage of deliverable mail by revising their Move Update standards. The changes include:

• Extending the revised Move Update requirements to include all Standard Mail (letters, flats, parcels and not flat-machinables)
• Increasing the minimum frequency of Move Update processing from 185 days to 95 days prior to the date of mailing.

The Move Update standards for mailers is to reduce the number of mailpieces that require forwarding or return, requiring the periodic matching of a mailer’s address records with customer filed change-of-address (COA) orders, through one of  four pre-approved methods:

            1) ACS
            2) NCOA
            3) Ancillary Endorsements
            4) Fast Forward         

If you have additional questions, we are here to assist. Please contact Mail Innovations customer care staff at 800-500-2224, option 2, or visit us at www.upsmailinnovations.com

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Hidden Space

Mail Processing Facilities
Houston P&DC, North Houston P&DC, Beaumont P&DC and Bryan P&DF are accepting drop shipments.

Stations and Branches
Houston Post Offices have reopened, including Oak Forest Station (77018, 77092)

In Beaumont, the Main Post Office (77707), South End Station (77701, 77702, and 77705) and Tobe Hahn Station (77703, 77706, 77708, and 77713) are providing limited retail and delivery service, while Lumberton Station (77657) is operating normally.

The following offices are closed: Gilchrist (77617), Port Bolivar/Crystal Beach (77650), High Island (77623), Sabine Pass (77655), Port Arthur (77640-43), Bobs Lyons Station (77551) and Wallisville (77597).

Note: Customers from Gilchrist, Port Bolivar/Crystal Beach, High Island, Sabine Pass and Wallisville are being served with alternate delivery at the Winnie, TX, and Post Office (77655).

Galveston, TX
Mail delivery resumes today for business and residential customers in the city of Galveston. Mail collection boxes that are accessible will follow regular mail collection schedules, unless posted as temporarily out of service.

The Galveston Main Post Office at 601 Rosenberg (77550) is closed.

Post Offices located outside the city encompassing the greater Houston, Beaumont and Galveston areas (ZIP Code areas 773, 774, 775, 776 and 777) have reopened, except where noted above.

All Post Offices in ZIP Code areas 779, 783, and 784 have resumed full operations.

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Columbus
The following Post Offices have resumed operations: Linden (43211), Northland (43229), Clintonville (43202) and Hilltop (43204).

Cincinnati
Cincinnati Airport Mail Facility has resumed operations.

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The following mandatory evacuations have curtailed mail delivery until after Hurricane Gustav passes through and weather and road conditions permit resumption of deliveries: Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermillion and Washington.

Service updates for SCF New Orleans
The Southwest Area is taking proactive steps to prepare for Hurricane Gustav making landfall. All customer transported mail bound for SCF New Orleans should be rerouted to Port Allen Processing Center, 1844 Commercial Dr., Port Allen, LA 70767-6105, until further notice

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Waterloo, IA, 50701
The Waterloo, IA, 50701, facility was evacuated at 8 p.m. June 9 due to flooding. All operations at the Main Post Office have been suspended. A temporary facility has been secured at 306 Thorson Avenue in Waterloo. The Waterloo Post Office also has suspended the acceptance of business mail at the office's Business Mail Entry Unit (BMEU) until further notice.

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