Compound Path and peeking white lines

I'd appreciate a fast response to this if its possible as I've got to send it to print very soon!
I'm trying to create a compound path in order to mask off some bits and create letters, but there seems to be some kind of overlap and its leaving a white line where there shouldn't be one. Its all set up to snap-to and both shapes are perfectly in line, but its still leaving this white border.
The top of each letter is basically just 2 semi circles, the diameter being where the white line is. Hopefully the lines are still visible on low-res monitors...
Does anyone know how to get rid of this line or if it will even print?
Cheers
Adam

Cheers for that, I blew the shapes up as big as the entire workspace so that I could overlap them a little bit, and it turns out they weren't even aligned properly... however aligning them completely doesn't work either, I still get a white line.
The problem with deliberately overlapping them is that you end up with a new white shape underneath, basically a bigger version of the line. Unless I'm doing it wrong.
Edit: Just read that, I'll try simplifying the shapes. Its basically made from circles and rectangles, I just hadn't joined them together.

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