User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS DESKTOP 7.82C RELEASE NOTES 10-2007

[. . . ] Postalsoft® DeskTop Release Notes DeskTop 7. 82c October 2007 Contact information Contact us on the Web at http://www. postalsoft. com. If you find any problem with this documentation, please report it to Business Objects in writing at documentation@businessobjects. com. Copyright Patents Copyright © 2007 Business Objects. Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. [. . . ] USPS data does not include foreign addresses. Therefore, to save money, you should exclude foreign addresses from the data that you send to Lorton Data for Extended Services processing. Foreign addresses Extended Services 7 Extended Services fields New Extended Services fields When you send data for processing through Extended Services, Lorton Data returns information in the fields described below and in the NCOALink, LACSLink, and DPV fields listed in your Postalsoft DeskTop User's Guide. It's a good idea to include these fields in your database so that you can see how your data was updated as a result of Extended Services processing. If you do not include these fields before performing Extended Services processing, it will be difficult to determine how or if your records were updated. Adding fields To add fields: 1. Choose File > Properties > Database. Under "Extended Services, " select the fields you want to add, or select them all if you're not sure, and click OK. Click OK to close the Record Layout window. Field kind Field name Description Updated with. . . DSF2 Address Type DSF_AD_TYP Record type. NDCBU (Neighborhood Delivery Centralized Box Unit). If the DSF2 Drop Indicator field contains Y, then this field contains a value from 000 to 999, indicating the number of businesses or families served by this delivery point. Delivery point serves multiple businesses or families. It may be a CMRA (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency). Address is not an educational institution. Address was not looked up. DSF2 DSF2 Delivery Type Indicator DSF_DL_TYP DSF2 DSF2 Drop Count DSF_DP_CNT DSF2 DSF2 Drop Indi- DSF_DP_IND cator DSF2 DSF2 Educational Indicator DSF_ED_IND DSF2 8 DeskTop Release Notes Field kind Field name Description Accurate, mailable addresses Updated with. . . DSF Score 2 DSF_SCORE DSF2 1A. Accurate address, as verified by DPV/DSF². Deliverable if the addressee's name is correct. Accurate address, as verified by DPV/DSF², but this is a seasonal address. It is vacant at least one season of the year. Accurate address as verified by DPV/DSF², but this address is a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (CMRA). A secondary address (suite, PMB, or apartment number) is present. USPS data does not yet contain deliverypoint information for this address, so it won't qualify for postage discounts. It is an accurate address and will get the proper coding within the next 30 days. Probably deliverable 2A. Record matched the Deceased suppression list N. [. . . ] with the Job Status window occur Status window within Postalsoft. If, for example, you hide the Job Status window during Lorton Data steps, Postalsoft will not receive records and reports until you re-open the Job Status window. If you want your job to be processed as fast as possible, leave the Job Status window open. If you need to work with other lists in Postalsoft, then hide the Job Status window and do other work until you receive an email from Lorton Data telling you that your job is completed. [. . . ]