MERLIN

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• MERLIN
• BARCODE DIGIT STRING
• ANALYSIS

John Sadler Manager, Business Mail Acceptance
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• MTAC Workgroup Established
• Wanda Senne, ACE World Marketing and Marty
  McGuire, BMA co-chairs
• First meeting on October 23, 2003
• Overall agreement on methodology and
  implementation
• Next step teleconference to finalize discussion
• Phase two discussions

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MERLIN Barcode Digit String Analysis

• First Step in Phased-In Approach to Improving
  Address Accuracy Quality
• Identification of Blatant Errors
• 0000 and 9999 4 add-ons
• Barcode Digit String Analysis
• 1 Tolerance for Barcode Digit String Analysis
• Below Tolerance Mailings Non-Barcode Rate

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MERLIN Address Accuracy

• Phase 2 - Valid Street Address Add-on
• Tolerance
• Implementation Date
• Phase 3 - Finest Depth of Code