Welcome to Melissa’s 2026 Quarter 1 Global Address Newsletter. We have some exciting developments in the works that we believe will be great new additions for our users.

New Zealand Non-Postal 

New Zealand Post is one of the postal partners that Melissa leverages in our Address engine. However, like with many postal authorities, they don’t deliver to every physical address, and there are some non-postal addresses that are left out of their data. In this update, we have added over 600 thousand non-postal addresses. This will give us complete coverage of the country. 

Melissa added non-postal data at the end of 2024. We have since expanded that number a few times, with this update being a major expansion as well. We have increased our non-postal address count to close to one million addresses.

Additionally, we have added new logic to handle Parcel locker information in the address.

Suggestions Beta

For our web service users, we are excited to introduce a new option to return suggestions when an address cannot be verified. It will only be for our real-time requests (one address input at a time). It is currently only available in some select countries as a BETA. Please see the documentation here for more information. 

Upcoming

We are working towards some major new updates and features in upcoming releases:

Melissa’s Expansion into China

Melissa has officially expanded into China. We are now also a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE) in China. As we continue to build out our infrastructure and presence in China, we are also working on providing in-country expertise and capabilities. We are building a new Premium Chinese language engine that will leverage many in-country resources not available in our current Chinese engine. For our users with a presence in China, we recommend paying attention to future updates about this topic.

Brazil Postal Data

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 populous country in the world, with over 212 million people. Brazil has always been a tough country to provide address verification for. We are now working on bringing the official postal data in source and getting it incorporated. Please stay tuned.

Alternate Great Britain and Ireland

Melissa is happy to partner with both Royal Mail and EIRCode to provide the premium postal data available for both countries. Although that is the best data available and best suited for most users, usage of that data does come with royalty stipulations and costs stipulated by those postal agencies. As an alternative, Melissa is working on alternative data sources for users who don’t need postal data.

Improved Country Detection

We often can see addresses where there is no country in the input, or the country is not where it is supposed to be. While we already have logic to detect a country if it is in the address lines, there are still more improvements that can be made. We are undergoing an intensive research, analysis, and development project to improve our country detection.

Chunghwa Post

We are working on making a dramatic improvement for our data in Taiwan by sourcing official data from the official postal agency: Chunghwa Post. This will upgrade both our Chinese addresses data as well as our Latin version of the address. Please stay tuned.

Many More Improvements in the Pipeline

Here at Melissa, we are constantly working on improving our data and engine. It is a never-ending process. Here are just a few upcoming items currently in the pipeline:

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