
Best Practices for Maintaining Good Contact Data
Good data hygiene for your contact data is the result of a process—and more important, having people tasked to “own” this process across all stakeholders using this data ...

Character Limits in Address Lines for USPS, UPS and FedEx
Most common US mailing addresses fall within the character limits of an address label used for mailing across delivery services. UPS offers up to 30 characters for address ...

Download Free ZIP and Postal Code Database with GeoCoordinates for US and Canada
In 2017, Service Objects provided access to a free downloadable dataset of all US ZIP Codes and Canadian Postal Codes. The dataset is continually maintained and has been ...

Complicated and Disputed International Borders
What makes an international border, and how are border lines determined? While natural features such as oceans, mountains ranges and river may serve well as markers in some ...

3 Simple Ways to Connect and Correct Mailing Addresses
Validating, correcting and enriching address data is not a do-it-yourself project for most organizations. Not only does it require access to authoritative data from the USPS and other ...

Detecting and validating Australian private mailboxes
As in the United States, there are alternate mailing options in Australia for receiving packages – or parcels – besides to your home or business. For example, PO ...

Customizing for the Client: Introducing the New ReverseSearch operation
Customer service excellence is one of Service Objects' four core values. We are committed to providing the highest level of customer service and one of the ways we ...

Benefits of Accurate Addresses
This article is an excerpt from our free whitepaper, The ROI of Address Validation, which we invite you to download. Here are some of the benefits of keeping ...

The Need for Accurate Addresses & How Contact Data Goes Bad
The Need for Accurate Addresses Once upon a time, businesses simply accepted a certain amount of bad contact data as part of the normal cost of doing business ...