ARC Management maintains the largest mailing list database of Seventh-day Adventists. More than 80 percent of the master file contains both husband and wife names. However, when you rent from us, we will only charge you per household, not per name. Therefore, with the majority of households you are reaching two people for the price of one. To help you reach your desired target audience, we can segment your list in a variety of ways, including conservative and liberal, state, conference, union, and ZIP code.

As you know, a database is only as good as the names and addresses in it. We are constantly updating our records to offer our clients the highest quality names and addresses. The industry standard return rate for mailing lists is 8 percent. However, ARC Management’s average return rate is much less, running around 2 percent.

When you rent from ARC Management, you receive the following benefits:

• All of our addresses are CASS certified. In cooperation with the mailing industry, the U.S. Postal Service developed the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) certification process to improve the accuracy of delivery. When qualifying for bulk mail automation rates, all addresses must be coded with current CASS-certified software. After CASS certification, the mailing list can be “presorted” to achieve automated mail rates by adding ZIP+4 codes, carrier route codes, and/or delivery point bar codes. Our addresses meet these industry standards.
• Nearly 15 percent of the U.S. population moves each year—which is more than 40 million people and businesses. ARC Management subscribes to the National Change of Address registry. Before processing any client rental requests, we update our database using the NCOA registry, thus ensuring that you have the most up-to-date set of addresses possible.

We also offer these benefits as a service to your organization. We are happy to work with you to update your current database to meet CASS requirements and to make sure you have current addresses for your donors.

For NCOA updates, the following prices apply. Please note that there is a $50 service fee on orders less than $500.

For CASS certification, we charge $2 per 1,000 addresses with a minimum order of $50.