
Fun Facts About ZIP Codes
Addresses in the United States used to be a simple matter of a street location, a city and state, and perhaps a city-specific postal zone. But by the ...
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Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: Understanding Geocoding
When Jimmy Buffett sang the title of this blog post years ago, he may not have realized that he was talking about things like geocoding and data mining ...
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NCOA Live FAQ: Your Change of Address Questions Answered
Our DOTS NCOA Live service is a real-time API that compares your contact data with the USPS’ National Change of Address (NCOA) database, which contains address data for ...
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Tutorial: Address Suggestor using Google’s Places API & Service Objects’ Address Validation API
Accurate address autocomplete At Service Objects, our mission is to ensure contact data is ‘genuine, accurate and up-to-date.’ This can be challenging when it comes to our clients ...
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Address Deduplication Using USPS Barcodes
When are two addresses actually the same? And when can you remove one of them from your contact database? The answer isn’t as simple as it sounds. Suppose ...
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Marketing, Mail and Millennials
What do you think of when it comes to marketing to Millennials? Terms like online, social media, viral video and crowdsourcing probably come to mind. But what about ...
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Help Santa Check It Twice: A Holiday Addressing Gift for You!
The holidays are fast approaching. Soon you’ll be celebrating the season and sending holiday gift baskets and cards to people you have enjoyed working with this year. So ...
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5 Commonly Used Terms and Definitions in International Address Validation Systems
When dividing the countries of the world into regions and sub-regions for the purpose of Address Validation, it is important to find common ground and to use a ...
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Moving to Canada – Mail Subscriber Guide
Thinking about moving to Canada after this election? All jokes aside, there are some things you should know about sending or receiving mail to our northerly neighbor. We ...
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