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.
Do you have an NCOA vendor to validate your mailing addresses? Tessitura has a great NCOA vendor - Zeta - that is very reasonable in price (IMHO). This helps limit the returns from invites.
And (again IMHO) Contact Point Purposes is a better choice to mark addresses as bad. It ties to the specific address and not the constituent like Contact Permissions. Using the Manage Contact Point Purposes utility you can select the list you want to use to update the specific addresses/address types.
Between these two should be able to limit the returns in the future.
Good luck.