How to Audit Your Service Bureau

You can’t run your processing to mirror that of your service bureau’s to validate its output. It would be nice if you could go through the same steps to get approximately the same end result, but that isn’t realistic or practical.

You can’t ever be 100 percent sure you have the cleanest, most accurate housefile. But you can come close. Service bureaus perform an important function, and they do a great job giving you a good file for mailing efficiencies.