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Mailing & Address Compliance

What is Rapid and Same-Day Delivery?

Rapid and same-day delivery are types of shipping or delivery services that prioritise speed and promptness in getting a product or package from the sender to the recipient.

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The Importance of Address Validation Technology for the UK Public Sector

In the United Kingdom, address validation technology holds significant importance for the public sector in the current digital age.

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What is Postcode Lookup Software?

Postcode lookup software allows individuals to input a postcode or address, which then returns an output of a valid postcode or address.

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What is a Unicode?

Unicode is an international character encoding standard that delivers a number to every character across languages and scripts so that all characters are accessible across all platforms.

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What is a UPRN?

A UPRN is a numerical identifier of up to 12 digits assigned to every addressable or spatial locale in Great Britain. The identifier can be placed on any kind of building, such as a house or business premises, or even objects like bus stations, post boxes and so forth.

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How Does an Address Verification System Work

Address Verification software is a combined database with global location reference datasets from official government postal data sources. It can parse, transliterate, format and verify the deliverability of any address.

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How to Format an Address

Address formatting is essential to ensuring your mail and parcels get to its premise without delay local and international.

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How does Address Lookup Technology Work?

Address lookup technology enables businesses to streamline the checkout, signup, onboarding, or general fill-in process for customers.

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What is Address Autocomplete?

Address Autocomplete is an API service that prepopulates online forms and checkout processes with verified address information to prevent typos from user error, speed up the checkout process and improve the customer experience.

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What is Address Transliteration?

Address transliteration is the process of transforming characters or fields from one alphabet to another, such as non-Roman characters into Latin characters.

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How to Choose the Best Address Verification Provider

Take a detailed look at three of the largest address management companies, what their capabilities are, and what you get for your money.

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Understanding National Change of Address, Other Move Update Services

Bad addresses are costing businesses millions. More than 6 million people in the UK move each year, and outdated address lists can label a letter or bill, package or flat as undelivered as addressed.

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How to Verify an Address

Address verification can help by ensuring only valid billing and shipping addresses enter your systems.

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Understanding the UK Address System

There are multiple ways to identifying an address in the UK, which can be done through data sets, localities, object names, codes, delivery point and property reference numbers. 

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When to Use OpenStreetMap vs. Premium Address Data

There are a few key differences between OpenStreetMap and Premium Address Data.

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How to Qualify for Move Update Discounts

Businesses wishing to qualify for the UK Postal Service’s Move Update discount are required to periodically match their address records.

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What are Non-Royal Mail Addresses & How Can They be Verified?

Non-Royal Mail Address or non-standard address is an address that does not match any known address in the PAF database.

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Location Intelligence

What is Driving Distance Calculation?

Driving distance calculation software enhances route planning, reduces costs, and boosts efficiency for logistics, e-commerce, and field service operations.

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What is Route Optimisation?

Learn how route optimisation boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and improves delivery times with smarter, data-driven route planning.

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The Hidden Role of Location Data

Discover how inaccurate location data could be slowing down your deliveries and learn how geocoding can optimise routes & reduce delays.

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The Hidden Challenges of Last-Mile Delivery in E-Commerce

Discover the hidden challenges of last-mile delivery in e-commerce, from urban congestion to rising delivery expectations.

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What is Address Intelligence?

Address intelligence: gathering, analysing, & using data linked to addresses for insights & informed decisions.

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What is Rooftop Geocoding?

Rooftop Geocoding takes and combines data from multiple sources, and the use of location algorithms pinpoints the exact lat/long of a street address on a map.

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Why Geo Enrichment is Important to the Financial Services

Geo-enrichment enables financial services institutions to know more about where their customers are, what they’re doing, and why they’re doing it.

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What is Reverse Geocoding?

Reverse geocoding allows you to get a complete address from latitude and longitude coordinates, plus retrieve detailed information about that location.

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What is My Geocode?

Geocodes are Latitude & longitude Coordinates of a street address, which can be used to place markers on a map.

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Business & Consumer ID Verification

What is Adverse Media Screening?

Adverse Media screening uses global media sources to check an individual’s background for any negative news associated with or pending against them.

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What is Identity Verification?

Identity Verification is ensuring in real-time that you are dealing with real people by matching their data with reliable sources locally & globally.

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What is Cross-Matching in Identity Verification (Centricity)?

Cross-Matching involves filling in the gaps with customer contact data(names, phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses and more).

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What is Optical Character Recognition?

OCR can be critical in avoiding possible fraud and being compliant with Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations.

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What is 2+2 Identity Verification?

Checking the Identity from multiple sources to assure that name, address, and date of birth (for example) match on at least two or more additional sources.

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What is a Politically Exposed Person?

A politically exposed person (PEP) refers to an individual with high public function who may present a higher risk towards corruption and bribery.

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What is AML (anti money laundering)?

Anti-Money Laundering refers to the laws, regulations and procedures put in place to prevent criminals from disguising illegally obtained funds as legitimate income.

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What is Customer Due Diligence (CDD)?

Customer Due Diligence is a process where businesses are required to obtain customer identity credentials and background checks to know exactly who they are and that they are who they say they are.

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What ID Document Verification?

ID Document Verification is an automated service that checks that a person’s ID is legitimate to verify a person’s Identity for KYC and onboarding practices.

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Matching / Deduplication

What is Survivorship & How Does it Improve Data Quality?

Survivorship is the process of verifying data in each contact record that captures all the pertinent information needed about a customer.

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What is the Difference Between Deterministic Matching & Probabilistic Matching?

The two main matching techniques used are deterministic matching and probabilistic matching.

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Data Management

What is a Phone Verification Service?

A Phone Verification service is used to check if numbers are live and callable, generally as they enter an organisation’s system, to ensure communication, protect against fraud, and meet KYC initiatives.

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What Causes Dirty Data

Dirty data is customer or business data that is faulty, meaning it contains records that are duplicates, insecure, incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent, or data that has gone stale over time.

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What is an Email Verification and Checking Tool?

An email verification tool checks an email to ensure it’s live, valid and can receive mail. It also identifies old or incorrect email addresses and removes them before they are used in campaigns and other business activities.

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What is ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)?

ETL is the process of integrating data from multiple sources into a data warehouse or other system.

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What is Data Quality?

Data Quality refers to the accuracy, consistency and completeness of the data which businesses need an effective way to manage and keep accurate over time.

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What is Data Deduplication?

Data deduplication is a process of matching, merging and deduplicating customer data that has accumulated over time.

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What is Data Cleansing?

Data cleansing is process to clean, maintain and enhance your database by identifying incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, or irrelevant parts of data.

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What is Date of Death Data and Why is it Useful?

Verifying death dates and removing deceased individuals from your mailing lists can benefit your business in several ways.

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Privacy

What is GDPR?

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a set of legal guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information from individuals who live in the European Union (EU)

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What Does it Mean to be SOC2 Compliant?

SOC2 is known for establishing ethical & auditing practices for private companies, nonprofit organisations & federal, state & local governments.

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