One thought: do you do a lot of householding? Is it possible that the duplicates were
two people from the same household because you handn't eliminated them from your found
set? They wouldn't be dupes to you since they're not the same person, but the mail
house might treat them as such since the address (and perhaps last name) is identical.
Matt
At 04:26 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I just recently sent out a mailing, and checked for dupes before sending to
>my mailing service. When I gave the list to the service, I had 17,000 names
>in the list. Of course, I had that many newsletters printed up. Today I
>received a phone call from the mail house that they were returning nearly
>5,000 (gulp!) to me, because they duped out 4,000+ names from our list. I
>have imported a lot of lists over the last few months, but have always
>checked for dupes before importing in e-base. I just checked for dupes
>again, using the loose function, and got only 138 dupes. There is a
>possiblity that the mail house made some sort of error, but what could I
>possibly be doing wrong here that 4,000 dupes are not showing up? Is there
>a custom search that I can create to be more thorough? Help!
>
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