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Deceased Suppression Service

Identify and remove deceased individuals from your direct marketing campaigns.


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1-800-454-0223
 
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DSF2 processing is provided by a nonexclusive licensee of the United States Postal Service. Melissa Data is a nonexclusive Interface Distributor and NCOALink Full Service Provider, DPV and LACSLink Licensee of the United States Postal Service. The prices for NCOALink and DPV services are not established, controlled, or approved by the United States Postal Service.

Save resources and avoid offending surviving family members by removing deceased contacts from your file. Although any file may have deceased contact records and should be scrubbed prior to execution, campaigns targeting senior citizens, retired individuals or mature communities have a higher proportion of deceased contact records and should always be run against the Deceased Suppression Service.

The process involves matching and flagging records in your file against the U.S. Social Security deceased List. Matched records are flagged (not deleted) with an indicator placed in a new field added to your record. A summary report provides you with statistical data describing your results and a record layout defines field positioning and content.

Benefits

  1. Reduce complaints arising from offended individuals.
  2. Increase marketing campaign ROI by improving deliverability.
  3. Save costs associated returned mail processing.
  4. Reduce environmental and financial costs associated with non-responsive mail.

Match Rates

0.5 - 3% Range.

Match Rate Factors

Related Services

For complete file suppression accuracy it is advisable to also run the DMA Mail Suppression and the Prison Suppression Service with Deceased Suppression.

File Format Specification

Please see the File Format Specification for information on required input and standard result fields.

This service also appends the following fields:

Field Name Length Description
Deceased Suppression flag 1 Y = Deceased Suppressed

N = Not Deceased Suppressed