CASS Certification and NCOA Processing

If you will be Printing Labels with Barcodes, certification needs to be done by a firm certified by the USPS first. The postal service will certify your addresses one time for free, every time after that you will need to pay for the service. Lorton Data in Minneapolis is the company we recommend to handle all your Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) Certification needs. Lorton has agreed to accept the input and format the output disk to match the USPS functions that exist in Church Windows.

 

The Lorton certification request form can be accessed from the "Partners" area of our website at www.churchwindows.com. For your convenience, we have taken the opportunity to fill in some of the information required. Your addresses should be CASS certified at least every six months. Questions about sending data to Lorton, pricing, etc. should be directed to them, visit www.lortondata.com or call 651.203.8290. Please pay special attention to the section where we have added the text "retain case". Without this notation, your data may be returned in all upper case. It is OK for your data to be in mixed case as Church Windows will convert to upper case and strip punctuation when you print mailing labels.

Not sure if you need CASS/NCOA?

We recommend reading the general information posted by Postage $aver at www.bulkmail.info and specifically at http://bulkmail.info/moveupdate.html. You can also contact your local Postmaster for further details.

Once you have determined that you need to have your addresses certified, you can Create a CASS/NCOA file and then Import your Output from Lorton to learn how to export and import the data.