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Deceased Suppression

Identify and remove deceased individuals from your direct marketing campaigns.

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.

Delivery Options

Full-Service

Self-Service

API

Enterprise

Benefits

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

Match Rates

0.5 - 3% Range.

Match Rate Factors

List type (only consumers are included)
List demographics (age)

Related Services

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

File Format Specification

*Please note that following our file format specifications is required only for our Self-Service products.

Please see our File Format Specification page for more information on required input and standard result fields.

The Deceased Suppression service also appends the following fields:

Field Name

Length

Description

Deceased Suppression flag

Y = Deceased Suppressed

N = Not Deceased Suppressed

View required input and standard result fields in our File Format Specifications.

Solutions Menu

List Cleaning Services

Address Standardization & Correction

National Change of Address (NCOA)

Locatable Address Conversion System

Delivery Sequence File (DSF^2™)

NCOA^Link™ TotalSource Enhancement

List Enhancement Services

List Suppression Services

Duplicate Elimination

DMA Mail Suppression / DMAchoice^™

Deceased Suppression

Prison Suppression

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