The Statement of Accuracy (SOA) is a certificate showing the percentage of addresses in your mailing list or database that are valid matches against the New Zealand Post Postal Address File (PAF).
A Statement of Accuracy is valid for 12 months. Your Statement of Accuracy ID Number and % rating must be declared against all Bulk Mail lodgements on your Statement of Posting (i.e. an AR19N or Lodgement Manager Manifest).
A threshold of 85% applies to be eligible for Bulk Mail rates on the total lodgement. If you have a Statement of Accuracy of less than 85%, the difference will be charged at an applicable Letter Domestic Product (LDP) rate. For example, where a Statement of Accuracy of 80% is achieved, 5% will be charged at the LDP rate. Further pricing information, including the Non-Conformance Pricing Schedule, is available on the Bulk Mail rate cards:
How to obtain a Statement of Accuracy
Only software certified by New Zealand Post can produce a valid Statement of Accuracy:
- A Statement of Accuracy can be obtained from a SendRight™ certified Data Solution Provider.
- Alternatively your business can purchase the SendRight™ certified software directly or develop software inhouse. Data services providers and in-house software developers can apply to have their software SendRight™ certified.
Find out more about the SendRight™ programme and SendRight™ certification.
What addresses can be excluded from your Statement of Accuracy?
The following address types may be excluded optionally from Statement of Accuracy calculations for the period 1 July 2008 through 30 June 2009.
- Community Mail Box
- Poste Restante
- Overseas/International
- Counter Delivery
- Private Bags with no number
- Addresses maintained by other postal operators. e.g. DX, Mail Boxes Etc
- Un-numbered rural addresses - these are excluded while local authorities complete street numbering programmes in rural areas.
Quality addressing - benefits and guides
Quality addressing (as demonstrated by achieving a Statement of Accuracy of 85% or more) creates a range of benefits for your organisation.
- What's in it for you? - boost your organisation's good name while improving your bottom line
- Business benefits - check out how quality addressing can help your business lower the cost of customer data management while improving both market insight and service delivery. Find out more about these and other benefits that flow from quality addressing
- Planning for quality addressing - useful guides on how you can achieve more accurate addresses
- Examples and scenarios - make quality addressing real for your organisation.
Want to know more?
- Contact your New Zealand Post Account Manager
- Call us on 0800 501 501.