We've just sent out our gala invitations and we've started to receive a good deal of them back because of wrong addresses etc. Last year we went through updating the contact permissions for each person we got a return-to-sender invite from. Obviously, this was a huge undertaking and took our whole development team weeks to complete. Is there a way to bulk update the contact permissions for a list of constituents? My team and I would love an alternative to updating individual records for a month.
I don't know about Contact Permissions, but you might be able to repurpose the NCOA Update utility to delete or inactivate the bad addresses in bulk.
There is a danger to using Contact Permissions to record something like a bad address: the Contact Permission is tied to the customer, not a specific contact point, so if the customer later supplies a valid address, they might still miss communications if this isn't noticed and someone doesn't manually change their Contact Permissions at the same time.