Effective November 23 of this year, the Postal Service is increasing its effort to improve the percentage of deliverable mail by revising the Move Update requirements.  The Move Update standards provide ways for mailers to reduce the number of mail pieces that require forwarding or return.  They require the periodic updating of a mailer's address records with change-of-address orders filed with the USPS.  The new rule:

• Increases the minimum frequency of Move Update processing from 185 calendar days to 95 days prior to the date of mailing.
• Extends the Move Update requirement to include all Standard Mail (letters, flats, parcels and not-flat-machinables), as well as automation-rate and presort-rate First-Class Mail.

Learn More:

• How To Meet the New Move Update Standard
• NCOA: Save Money and Comply!
• Using NCOA Results
• Additional Information: USPS Publication 363

Form Downloads:

Form 6014:  Certification of Move Update Compliance
18 Month Service Processing Acknowledgement Form (PAF)
48 Month Service Processing Acknowledgement Form (PAF)