Prison Suppression Service
Identify and remove correctional facility addresses from your marketing campaigns.
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.
One in a hundred American adults are behind bars. Are you wasting resources by unknowingly including these individuals in your marketing campaigns?
The Prison Suppression service involves matching and flagging (not deleting) records in your file against the addresses of over 7,500 prisons in the United States. Matched records are marked 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
- Reduce the potential of fraudulent orders.
- Improve response rates by not contacting non-responsive individuals.
- Reduce environmental and financial costs associated with non-responsive mail.
Match Rates
0.5-1.5% Range.
Match Rate Factors
- List type (consumer, business)
- List demographics
Related Services
For complete file suppression accuracy it is advisable to also run the DMA Mail Suppression and the Deceased Suppression Service with Prison 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prison Suppression flag | 1 | Y = Prison Suppressed
N = Not Prison Suppressed |
