>>Hi Edmond,
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>>We deal with the similar problem here. We use Mailer's files which we receive monthly. Using Mailer software we prepare an extract into txt file, then I do some manipulations and create a VFP Streets table, which we lately use for Address Standardization and Zipping. We use data for NE states only (as I recall, we filtered 4 states: MA, CT, RI, NH) and it's about 5-6mln. records.
>>We decided to not do Owner Address standardization for non-NE owners, since the percent of non-NE owners is relatively small. Anyway, you can divide data by regions, or by State, name them correspondingly, say, MEStreets, AZStreets, etc.
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>Nadya,
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>I assume that you use Mailer's own export function to export the data to a txt file or do you know what data format that Mailer's+ keeps the national database in and do the exporting yourself?
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>Ed
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>Ed

No, I don't know the inner details of Mailer program, though I may try to figure this out. Yes, we use its own export function. I can tell, that this program is very memory consuming, e.g. when we run Mailer program, we can not run other applications on this machine.