Data merge shifting objects inaccurate

I'm using Data Merge to create adress labels. When I setup border and activate Preview (or create the merged Document) Objects are shiftet wrong. See attached screenshots; please advise. Thank you!
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Hi Peter,
thank you for your answer.
I tried skipping the preview, it is shifted in the same way.
(The zero point is set to page corners in both documents - in template doc the margin guides are set to 0 so it maybe looks just different; anyway )
Here I startet a new document, zero set to page corners, skipped the preview - and the objects are again shiftet by 0,122 mm in the merged document
This looks like a rounding calculation error somewhere … why should 10mm suddenly become 9,878mm?

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