NCOA (National Change of Address)


NCOA (National Change of Address) was updated by the USPS last fall and is now called NCOA^Link.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) increases the deliverability of mail and is an essential list maintenance tool.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) helps keep track of the one in five Americans who move each year and checks the integrity of mailing addresses.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) updates address changes going back 48 months by taking advantage of a USPS-maintained database containing approximately 160 million individual, family and business change of address registrations.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) now includes a new field called NCOA-Index that helps you sort and filter your list based on change of address updates.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) now includes Delivery Point Validation (DPV) at no extra cost. It checks the integrity of mailing addresses by determining if they are valid delivery points down to the unit number. Matching is against the USPS master database of all delivery points in the United States. DPV tells you which of your addresses are valid and which are not.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) no longer includes NIXIE footnotes, also know as NIXIE Elimination Service (NES). These were replaced by DPV and a new footnote system when NCOA became NCOA^Link last fall.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) sometimes includes Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) service. It corrects addresses in areas that have undergone permanent address conversions. The LACS database consists of address corrections primarily as a result of Emergency 911 system implementation. These typically involve renumbering and renaming rural route, highway route and box number addresses as city-style addresses.

NCOA^Link (National Change of Address) is offered by Peacock Data, Inc. It includes LACS and Gender Coding at no extra cost.



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