The 18-month NCOALink product provides change of address information for moves occurring in the last 18 months. Address Not Known (ANKLink) allows NCOALink Limited Service Provider and End User Mailer licensees to optionally acquire an additional 30 months of COA information. ANKLink does not return a new address but informs mailers that customer moves have occurred in the 19-48 month range and provides a move effective date.
The USPS packages ANKLink as an enhancement to the NCOALink product and covers the development, distribution, and use of ANKLink under the existing NCOALink license.
VeriMove populates the ANKLink Return Code output field with the value "77" when an ANKLink match is detected and sets the appropriate ANKLink Footnote Code.
If VeriMove detects an ANKLink match and sets a Footnote Code, the NCOALink Processing Summary Report includes the ANKLink Footnote Statistics section. This section displays:
- Number of records resulting in an ANKLink match
- Percentage of records in the input file resulting in an ANKLink match
- List of the ANKLink footnotes
- Number of records in the input file for each ANKLink Footnote Code
- Percentage of records in the input file for each Footnote Code
If all Footnote Codes are equal to zero, the ANKLink Footnote Statistics section does not print on the NCOALink Processing Summary Report.
The NCOALink Processing Summary Report includes the USPS NCOALink Footnote Descriptions section to provide detailed descriptions for each Footnote Code generated during processing.
For more information on the NCOALink Processing Summary Report, see NCOA/Link Processing Summary Report.