AEC Management
Cost-effective, consistent and timely delivery of every mailpiece depends on its address.
Address Element Correction (AEC) is a service that corrects and standardizes your clients’ address elements when CASS Certified™ address-matching software cannot match to the ZIP + 4®. AEC focuses on correcting address element deficiencies such as misspellings, nonstandard abbreviations and missing elements and transforms problem addresses into accurate, standardized addresses.
AEC II®, the next generation of AEC, uses Delivery Force Knowledge™ to correct the errors in your clients’ addresses that are not correctible by existing programs. Delivery Force Knowledge leverages the efforts of local delivery unit employees who review bad addresses and enter corrections into an AEC II electronic process for return to your clients.
AEC processing must be used prior to AEC II processing.
- Identifies addresses as potentially undeliverable
- Corrects address lines containing non-address data
- Corrects improperly ordered address elements
- Uses Delivery Force Knowledge™ - experience of local delivery unit employees to correct your clients’ addresses
- Turns your clients’ problem addresses into accurate addresses
- Results in complete, standardized addresses that can be matched to a 5-digit ZIP Code™ and ZIP + 4® Code
- Provides standardized addresses allowing your clients to take full advantage of automation discounts
- Provides electronically returned address corrections
