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'''CASS''' ('''Coding Accuracy Support System''') enables the [[United States Postal Service]] to evaluate the accuracy of software that cleans and matches addresses. CASS is offered to all mailers, service bureaus, and software vendors who want to evaluate their address-matching software and improve the quality of their [[ZIP Code|ZIP]]+4, carrier route, and five-digit coding accuracy.
CASS certified products are listed in U.S. Post Office literature and on their web site. CASS certification only lasts for one calendar year. Applications must be certified again each year by submitting test data to CASS online. The online certification process has greatly improved the turnaround of the program with most results being processed within 24 hours. Each yearly CASS certification requirements are called cycles. The current CASS cycle is named
The purpose CASS software will do is to correct and/or add street names, zip codes, street suffixes, etc to help ensure the address is correct and complete. A correct address in turn saves the Postal Service time, money and man-power by reducing the volume of 1) non-deliverable mail; 2) unsorted mail; 3) mail that is deliverable, but requires extra effort to determine the proper ___location to deliver it to.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://ribbs.usps.gov/files/CASS/CASS%5FCYCLE%5FL/CASS_CERT_REQ_MAILERS_GUIDE.PDF | title = CASS Certification Requirements, A Mailer's Guide | publisher = United States Postal Service | accessdate = 2007-07-27 | date = 2007-06-26 }}</ref>
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