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Three Letter Acronyms
Address Quality
A Taxing Endeavor
Who am I?
100
It's the Security Standards Council whose initial members were Amex, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa. Hint: _ _ _ Compliance
What is PCI?
100
It's the three letter acronym for the suspension of service in response to an indication by the postal service that a magazine is undeliverable as addressed.
What is KBN?
100
It's the mascot of the Address Quality Systems group.
What is a (rubber) chicken?
100
It's the name of the Software company which provides Finance with up to date tax information.
What is Vertex?
100
A 100% polish team member from Chicago who originally pursued a career on television.
Who is Sandra Jerzak?
200
It's a process by which the actual value of a credit card number is replaced with a surrogate value which cannot be used to regenerate the original value.
What is (Credit Card) Tokenization?
200
It's the three letter acronym for the largest independent auditing organization of the magazine industry.
What is ABC?
200
It's the name of the band made up of members of the Address Quality Systems group.
What is "The Fowl Tones"?
200
It's the company-wide initiative requiring extensive changes to how taxes are calculated due to it's use of several different concurrent product types as well as tiers.
What is Consumer Evolution?
200
A team member originally from NJ who formerly worked for Brighthouse.
Who is Debra Mortensen?
300
It's the return of funds to a consumer forcibly initiated by the issuing bank of the instrument used by a consumer to settle a debt.
What are chargebacks?
300
It's the three letter acronym for the code signifying that a subscriber would not like to be a part of future promotions.
What is DNP?
300
It's the lucrative processing TCS performs as a licensee of the USPS in which address lists are updated from 3 years worth of post office change of address cards.
What is NCOA?
300
It's the term for a type of legal entity TCS is currently using for taxing digital products.
What is a "shadow" legal entity?
300
A team member who studied percussion, pre-med and geology before eventually settling on information technology.
Who is Brad Silverman?
400
It's the transaction which is initiated after a final credit card deposit recycle attempt is exhausted.
What is a TRB?
400
It's the three letter acronym for the federal law enacted in 2002 that set new standards for all U.S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms in response to several scandals such as Enron.
What is SOX?
400
It's the process of combining multiple files while eliminating duplicate and unwanted records for the purpose of providing a mailer with the best possible list of names to mail a promotion.
What is "Merge Purge"?
400
It's a type of product or offer you get when you have both the print magazine and a digital offering which is taxed differently in some states.
What is a "bundled" product or "combo title offer"?
400
A team member who attended Jesuit HS and USF and married a co-worker.
Who is Rob Delano?
500
It's the credit card clearing house who processes 95% of TCS credit card transactions.
What is Paymentech
500
It's the three letter acronym for a Time Inc. division headquartered in the city of Chennai.
What is TAS?
500
It's the delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail.
What is Direct Mail?
500
It's a term for whether or not an out-of-state business selling products into a state is liable for collecting the tax on sales in the state.
What is "Nexus"?
500
A team member who witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and whose parents were both in military intelligence.
Who is Bruce Martz?
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