Category: Address Accuracy and Delivery

PO Boxes versus Private Mail Boxes (PMBs)

PO Boxes versus Private Mail Boxes (PMBs)

Once upon a time, mail was delivered to residences, workplaces, or a Post Office (PO) box that are provided by the United States Postal Service. More recently, there ...
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Understanding Geographic Data in DOTS Address Geocode – US

Understanding Geographic Data in DOTS Address Geocode – US

What does it mean to geocode? Our DOTS Address Geocode – US web service provides latitude and longitude coordinates along with other metadata information about a physical US ...
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Address Validation's Alphabet Soup

Address Validation’s Alphabet Soup

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has an acronym for almost everything and this leads to some pretty interesting conversations around the Service Objects' water cooler. You might ...
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Canadian Address Validation - In a Nutshell

Canadian Address Validation – In a Nutshell

When Service Objects talks about address validation, we tend to focus on our US and International products, while our Canadian address validation product tends to get less attention ...
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Unique Zip Codes - What Are They?

Unique Zip Codes – What Are They?

If you have ever run into a unique ZIP code while doing address lookups or validation, then there is a good chance that they may have caused some ...
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Address Validation Service vs. Address Verification Service (AVS)

Address Validation Service vs. Address Verification Service (AVS)

Some terms sound similar but aren’t actually interchangeable – like sympathy versus empathy or good versus well. In the data quality business, two similar phrases with totally separate ...
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How Data Quality Tools Help Save Mother's Day

How Data Quality Tools Help Save Mother’s Day

We have many mission-critical applications for our products. But every year in May, one of the most critical ones is keeping moms happy on Mother’s Day. After all, ...
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Using Geocoding for Target Marketing

Using Geocoding for Target Marketing

What can a little latitude and longitude do for your marketing? A great deal, as it turns out. For starters, geotargeting – or the use of geographic coordinates ...
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DOTS Address Validation - US 3: Delivery Point Validation Explained

DOTS Address Validation – US 3: Delivery Point Validation Explained

One of the features of our DOTS Address Validation - US 3 service is Delivery Point Validation, or DPV for short. DPV codes help you determine whether an ...
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