Ecommerce and the Holidays: Here Comes Everyone
The 2020 pandemic has not only changed our lives – it has also disrupted our schedules. Which is leading to a perfect storm that is looming for retailers ...
GetSecondaryNumbers: A New Option for More Accurate Address Validation
In case you missed it, we recently released a new operation in our DOTS Address Validation 3 US web service. It’s called GetSecondaryNumbers, and we’re excited about how ...
Delivery Capacity and the 2020 Holidays
How much has ecommerce grown during this 2020 pandemic year? For most of us, all we need to do is look at the delivery boxes that have been ...
New Update to DOTS Address Validation – International
Our DOTS Address Validation - International validates addresses in over 250 countries and territories, instantly correcting, standardizing and appending addresses and address information for even the most challenging ...
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 ...