Canadian AVC – Address Validation & Correction

Canadian AVC – Address Validation & Correction – standardizes Canadian addresses to meet the requirements of the Canadian postal authorities.

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To qualify for Canada Post (Postes Canada; Société canadienne des postes) Incentive Lettermail, Addressed Admail and Publication Mail rates, mailers must meet Address Accuracy Program requirements similar to the USPS requirement of utilizing CASS certified address matching software.

The address accuracy standard in Canada is 95%, which means at least 95% of the addresses on a mailing list need to be valid addresses. This standard must be achieved otherwise a rate adjustment is applied to the mail pieces with inaccurate addresses.

Canadian AVC service processes your lists, using Canadian postal authority-approved Address Validation & Correction software, to clean and complete inaccurate addresses, append or correct postal codes, make spelling corrections, standardize addresses and provide a Statement of Accuracy (SOA) reporting the percentage of accurate addresses. Mailers are required to generate a new SOA once a year.

What else is special about our Canadian AVC service? To maximize results each file is checked before processing to look for problems. The input data is optimized for the best outcome.

• Statement of Accuracy (SOA)—reports the percentage of accurate addresses
• Cleans and completes inaccurate addresses
• Appends or corrects postal codes
• Spelling corrections
• Standardizes addresses
• Approved by the Canada Post (Postes Canada; Société canadienne des postes)
• Preprocessing Optimization:
  • Each file is checked before processing to look for problems
  • Input data is optimize for the best results
• Friendly return file
• Easy-to-read statistics on your Canadian AVC – Address Validation & Correction – service
• Two business day turnaround
• Rates are in USD

Canadian AVC – Address Validation & Correction – can be purchased using our online order form or fax order form. You will be able to select additional data processing services to be run at the same time.

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Notes

Canadian AVC is provided free with Canadian Change of Address.

Customers new to Canadian AVC or Canadian Data Services will want to review the many additional resources located in the Support section of this website.