SendRight™ Certification to issue Statement of Accuracy (SOA)

Effective 1 June 2006, New Zealand Post introduced new postcodes and addressing formats. The new postcodes will create a unique address for every delivery point in New Zealand Post’s delivery network.

In order to receive bulk mail discounts (for batches over 300 mail items), customers will need to use new postcodes from 1 July 2008. To prove that correct postcodes (and other addressing formats) have been used, all bulk mail lodgements need to be accompanied by a Statement of Accuracy (SOA). An electronic SOA reports the address accuracy of a mailing list or database measured against the New Zealand Post Postal Address file (PAF). By 1 July 2008, accuracy of 85% must be achieved. The portion of mail below the 85% threshold will be charged at the full standard mail rate. The SOA will be progressively increased to 95% over time.

DCA has been working with New Zealand Post’s new PAF file for the last 6 months and in that time has developed several data conversion algorithms enabling DCA to convert the old postcodes to the new format programmatically.

An SOA must be obtained using New Zealand Post SendRight™ Certified software. DCA have received SendRight™ certification for our address matching software tool Nirvana.

This certification will enable DCA to match a client’s address database/s with the New Zealand Post PAF file to validate the level of address accuracy. DCA will issue a SOA if the level of accuracy is reached. If required DCA can undertake a Data Quality Audit to assess and schedule the cleansing requirements that will bring the database over the accuracy threshold.

For more information on this DCA service, please refer to SendRight™ certification or our New Zealand website.

DCA can licence the Nirvana software for in-house use or provide the SOA validation services as a bureau service.

DCA is uniquely positioned in the market place to combine its extensive data processing, matching and cleansing capabilities with its customised software development abilities to build address verification software functionality into a client’s customer information systems, with real time and batched validation capabilities.