For the record - the Postal Service will train business mailers in qualifying for the lowest possible mail rate - Brief Article

Nation's Business, July, 1996

The U.S. Postal Service has begun teaching business mailers how to prepare their mail to qualify for the lowest rates available under the recently revamped classification system, effective July 1. (For details about reclassification, see "Postal Changes Raise The Stakes," in the June issue.)

The Postal Service education effort-- which it calls Max It!--includes a detailed guide and training sessions nationwide. To receive the publication and find out the date and location of the session nearest you, call 1-800-THE-USPS (1-800-843-8777), Ext. 2012.

Also, there's new, high-tech help available for business owners looking to update their customer mailing databases to take advantage of the postal reclassification, which assigns the lowest rates to mailings that can be processed automatically. A $49 software program called ZIPFix, from Pro CD Inc., in Danvers, Mass., corrects ZIP code errors and misspelled street names, cities, and state abbreviations in mailing databases. ZIPFix, available at retail stores and based on the Postal Service database of addresses, also provides carrier-route and delivery-point bar codes for automating large mailings.