Welcome to our 2024 Quarter 3 Global Address Newsletter. We have some exciting developments in the works that we believe will be great new additions for our users.
2024 Q3
PostNL Partnership
We are excited to announce our new partnership with the official postal authority for the Netherlands, PostNL. By bringing official postal data to our clients, Melissa is able to ensure that our address data for the Netherlands is the best available.
Country Name Variations
We have expanded our list of recognizable country names to account for what we sometimes see in the wild. For example, you can put in “Österreich” instead of “Austria”, or even the Arabic version of Japan: “اليابان”.
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UPCOMING
We are working towards some major new updates and features in upcoming releases:
Expanded Data for Germany
Germany is a special country for Melissa, as it is the first international office that we opened outside of the United States. As this market continues to mature for us, we continue to expand the more limited use cases that are available in this market. We will be adding:
Bulk Postal Code Special Logic Specialized postal codes designed especially for bulk mail receivers in Germany with their own special rules.
DHL Parcel Shop Locations Small stores/locations operated by DHL that accepts package deliveries.
Special Austrian Deliveries A few towns in the mountain areas of Austria whose mail is handled by Deutsche Post.
NUTS and LAU codes
For our European friends, NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) may mean something slightly different. We are in the process of adding the three NUTS hierarchy levels (NUTS 1, NUTS 2 and NUTS 3) along with LAU (Local Administrative Units) codes.
Non-Postal Data
Non-postal data is a specialty for Melissa. We have long offered the ability to verify real addresses in the United States that are not available in the USPS database. We have been making a push in multiple countries to expand our coverage and add new data.
United States: The US is a large and vast country with many rural areas. We are on track to increase our non-USPS data to 10 million real physical address points.
Canada: Non-postal data would be a new introduction here.
Australia: Also a new country for non-postal data. We are very excited by the quality of data we will be able to add.
More countries are in the pipeline as well. Stay tuned!
China
We have some big updates planned for the “Middle Kingdom” as it is called in Chinese. We are working on an improved matching and coding engine. Improved matching and improved parsing are just two of the expected advancements on the docket. We are very excited and hope to get this into our users’ hands soon.
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