<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Mark Newnham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@newnhams.com" target="_blank">mark@newnhams.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>I work in the Uitilities/Billing industry and do a reasonable amount of work in addressing quality (in order to get lower USPS rates with things like the Intelligent Mail Barcoder and suchlike). I'd just like to throw a couple of things in to enhance the discussion....There are plenty of tools that the USPS supplies to enhance address quality.</div>

<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><a href="https://www.usps.com/business/manage-address-quality.htm" target="_blank">https://www.usps.com/business/manage-address-quality.htm</a></span></div>

<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hope this helps the discussion</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To be clear: the USPS tools are geared to taking an existing list of addresses, and correcting them.  The USPS works very hard</div>

<div>to not be a source of previously unknown addresses (for whatever reason: they could do far better than most private mailing list</div><div>vendors).</div><div><br></div><div>Licence restrictions abound.</div></div>