Dave Craven wrote:
DC: That's 5 addresses per request. Doesn't take long to parse a whole
spreadsheet full of addresses. No, its not a database full of 100's of
thousands, but a suitable solution for small to medium requirements.
As far as I know, no such service is offered by the Canadian Post Office.
And CASS certification of a large number of batches of five US records
would be useless. Does this service even gives CASS certification? If
not, it is not suitable for any business looking for postal rate discounts.
And the limit of 5 per transaction applies the FREE access to USPS. You
get more access if you spend money. The basic means doesn't change
(sending and receiving xml). I've done work for mail houses too.
So, we avoid using non-Linux systems by paying the US Post Office to
correct and CASS-certify US addresses. Can you provide a website with
details? However if this is not less expensive than having a mailing
house in the US do it for us, we obviously would not be interested.
I expect it isn’t less expensive, else almost everyone in the US would
be doing it that way to save money.
Can you show that the US Post Office would be using Linux for this
service (or Gnu-Unix, or even Solaris)? (I expect they would be using
some mainframe software.)
We cannot do US sorts ourselves any more, since your incompetent
Homeland Security has decided that sending postal information available
on files in mailing houses throughout the US suddenly presents a danger
to the US if sent outside the country, as if almost any organization
could not get this information relatively easily within the US. Just
purchase the software legally within the US.
These are the same nits who illegally kidnapped Canadian citizen Maher
Arar and sent him to Syria to be tortured for a year with no evidence
whatsoever of wrong-doing. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/world/americas/19canada.html and
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/06/hbc-90003043 .
Jim Allan
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