Global Address Newsletter
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Welcome to Melissa’s 2025 Quarter 3 Global Address Newsletter. We have some exciting developments in the works that we believe will be great new additions for our users.
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We are pleased to announce a new data source for Poland. With this new high quality data source, our users will now have access to the latest and best house number, street and area data available. Also coming along for the ride is high precision rooftop level geocoding.
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Portugal Data Improvement
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Melissa has been working on improving our house number coverage for Portugal. We are pleased to report that we have added an additional two million records, significantly enhancing the accuracy and completeness of our data.
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The speed of our engine is a critical part of the product, in addition to coding quality. Working with Cyrillic characters has always been a time-consuming task and subject to being slower than other scripts. In a revamp of the coding logic for Russia, we have been able to improve the speed for Russia by up to 40%.
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We are working towards some major new updates and features in upcoming releases:
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Melissa is happy to announce our new relationship with Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos, also known as Correios. They are the national postal service provider for Brazil, the 7th most populated country in the world with over 212 million people. Bazil has always been a challenging country for address verification. We are now working to incorporate the official postal data as a source. Please stay tuned for updates.
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We have been hard at work making changes and improvements for Canada. We expect that in quarter 4 of 2025, we will be able to incorporate non-postal data for Canada. Melissa is a SERP certified vendor, using official Point of Call (POCAD) data from CanadaPost. However, with Canada having large swaths of rural land, there are still many addresses not serviced by CanadaPost and not in their official data set. Adding non-postal data will allow us to provide coverage to these areas.
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Alternate Great Britain and Ireland
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Melissa is proud to partner with both Royal Mail and EIRCode to provide the premium postal data available for the UK and Ireland. While this is the highest-quality data available and ideal for most users, usage of that data does come with royalty stipulations and costs set by those postal agencies. As an alternative, Melissa is developing non-postal data sources for users who don’t require official postal data.
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Many More Improvements in the Pipeline
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Here at Melissa, we are constantly working on improving our data and engine. It is a never-ending process. Just a few upcoming items currently in the pipeline:
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- New estate support for Hong Kong
- Improve country detection
- New census codes for the United States
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