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MELISSA'S
Global Address Newsletter
Product Features & Future Updates
Welcome to our 2024 Quarter 2 Global Address Newsletter. We have some exciting developments in the works that we believe will be great new additions for our users.
2024 Q2
Ireland Alias Addresses
We are happy to announce that we are now making available official EIRCode alias data in our engine. This includes official postal authority selected misspellings and variations.
UPCOMING
We are working towards some major new updates and features in upcoming releases:
Non-Postal Data
Melissa is making a push for non-postal data. What is non-postal data you may ask? It is data on physical addresses that exist, but is not delivered to by the official postal authority, and not included as part of the official postal data set. This data may be important because while the official post office may not deliver mail there, these still may be valid places to live and register for services.
USPS: Non-postal addresses for the US are already available. However, we have been working on expanding our coverage and getting every possible real address while excluding empty lots.
CanadaPost: We are looking to introduce Canadian non-postal data. Canada is slightly larger than the US in terms of land mass but with 9X less population. This means that the rural areas are very rural, making them prime locations for non-postal information.
Australia Post: Another country with very rural areas, non-postal addresses from down under are also in the works.
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 expect advancements on the docket. We are very excited and hoping to get this into our users’ hands soon.
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 as well.
Germany Bulk Postal Codes
These are specialized postal codes designed especially for bulk mail receivers in Germany. We are working on acquiring and integrating this data in order to cover all possible mailing cases for the country.
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