Mailing Matters: What Move Update Means

The penalties associated with the Move Update can be substantial to your customers’ businesses. Non-compliant mail is assessed at $0.07 per piece, applied to the entire mailing for Standard mail and at a single-piece rate for the entire mailing for First Class mail. The USPS offers some leniency, not assessing penalties if fewer than five errors are found during verification, or if 70 percent or more of the addresses with change of address forms filed have been updated.