News Archive 2008
December 18, 2008
AddressDoctor's offices are closed from December 24th, 2008 to January 2nd, 2009. The AddressDoctor team wishes you a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year 2009!
December 15, 2008
Where does Santa Claus live? AddressDoctor knows. In many countries, Santa Claus has his own address especially for Christmas letters from the young and young at heart. For your wish list to arrive in time, AddressDoctor validates the address before shipment.
December 9, 2008
With the planned last update of the reference database in the year 2008, AddressDoctor has updated another 19 databases containing information for 43 countries and territories. All in all in 2008, AddressDoctor has updated 299 databases covering 617 countries and territories.
December 4, 2008
Mauritius is planning to introduce a new postal code system. Both the Mauritius Ministry and postal authorities are emphasizing the need to invest and innovate through new products in order to achieve higher quality.
November 25, 2008
In November, AddressDoctor has updated reference data for 30 countries. Iraq, Saint Kitts and Nevis are among the newly updated countries and territories. For AddressDoctor's web services customers, these database updates are already in place.
November 11, 2008
AddressDoctor will present at Triangle's PosTech conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on November 17 and 18, 2008. The global conference for the Postal Industry will focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by technology over the coming years.
October 27, 2008
AddressDoctor will present with current customer German Steigenberger Hotel Group at this year's MICROS OPERA User's Conference in Mallorca, from October 26 through 29. This event is geared towards international hospitality business leaders and provides an excellent opportunity for attendees to learn more about the latest developments in OPERA technology and meet industry decision makers.
October 20, 2008
Only 50% of all mail for New Zealand carries the correct postal code. In order to reduce costs caused by incorrectly addressed mail and improve deliverability, New Zealand Post has now launched another nationwide postal code reminder campaign.
October 9, 2008
In October, AddressDoctor has updated its reference data for 41 countries and territories, including Canada, the Philippines and Greece. In particular, the data for the verification of Greek addresses has been significantly enhanced.
September 22, 2008
The Mexican postal service's colors now shine in hot-pink and lime-green. Besides a new logo and new uniforms for postal employees, the all-around visual modernization includes pink and lime colored post offices. The government hopes that these activities will improve the tarnished reputation of the postal organization and increase sales.
September 10, 2008
In September, AddressDoctor updated reference data for 46 countries and territories. Deserving special mention are the databases for Lithuania and Armenia. The reference data used for address verification are revised monthly. As a result, the processing with AddressDoctor is always up-to-date - for 246 countries around the world.
September 8, 2008
Due to the great demand for detailed information regarding the complex Chinese address format, AddressDoctor now provides these facts for your deliveries to China.
August 19, 2008
A picture says more than thousand words. That's why AddressDoctor's interactive world map has been enhanced by adding new features. With one click, you get answers to questions like: When was the last update of China's reference database? For which countries is geocoding available?
August 12, 2008
AddressDoctor has improved engine speed by further 33.9%! As a result, especially processing of large address databases has been significantly improved. This is mainly made possible by optimized caching of previously processed database areas in main memory.
August 6, 2008
With the August update of the reference databases, AddressDoctor updates 58 countries and territories worldwide - more countries than ever before within one month. Malaysia, Venezuela and Panama are among the countries with the newest data. Experts from around the world work constantly to supplement AddressDoctor's databases with the newest data available and keep them up-to-date.
July 31, 2008
Currently the 24th Universal Postal Congress (UPC) meets in Geneva where more than 2,000 delegates from 191 member countries of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) debate on international postal issues. This year, the matter “Post and Environmental Protection" plays an important role at the convention.
July 18, 2008
Due to the large number of updated databases, AddressDoctor will release databases twice in July 2008. Currently, 43 of the 246 countries and territories supported by AddressDoctor have already been released. 13 additional countries and territories will follow. With the second release, AddressDoctor expects to have a total of 56 countries and territories released.
July 16, 2008
Austrian Post has adjusted its addressing standards according to changing general conditions and resolved some ambiguous addresses from its postal database. The locality of an Austrian address is no longer the municipality, but the town. This change also affects the writing of addresses. To wit, the additional use of town districts in ambiguous addresses is no longer necessary. This measure has also improved the processing of Austrian addresses within AddressDoctor.
June 27, 2008
What can you do if your most loyal customers move and forget to inform you about it? Behind every address, there is a customer with a potential to drive sales. With the various enrichment solutions available for addresses, AddressDoctor helps you to retain and better understand your customers. The Change of Address Check, provided by AddressDoctor, is only one of several possibilities.
June 19, 2008
Ireland's Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan, has announced that he will give a new assessment on the introduction of postal codes in Ireland to the Government soon. This statement has provoked a new discussion about the costs and benefits of using postal codes.
June 11, 2008
Meet AddressDoctor at the HITEC 2008 in Austin, Texas from June 17th to 19th and learn how to strengthen the relationship with your customers by means of exceptional data quality. Many Hotel Groups and leading providers of hospitality software have already recognized of the high value placed on correct addresses.
June 10, 2008
Australia, Indonesia, Kenya and Swaziland, these are just four of the 46 countries, that AddressDoctor has updated the reference databases for June 2008. Complete, detailed and up-to-date reference databases are the foundations of correct address validation.
June 3, 2008
United States Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen has requested to return to the practice of the Virgin Islands processing of its own mail, instead of USVI mail being sent to Puerto Rico to be processed. The extraordinary length of time involved in delivering mail to US Virgin Mail, or not even being delivered at all, has created an unacceptable situation.
May 14, 2008
Emirates Post plans the introduction of a postal code system in the United Arab Emirates by the end of 2009. Up to now, the national postal system only provides P.O. Box numbers for individuals or companies.
May 6, 2008
AddressDoctor provides up-to-date address quality at any time. In May 2008, 29 further reference databases were updated. By means of monthly database updates, AddressDoctor provides its customers with proper addresses and, consequently, effective customer management.
April 30, 2008
High quality data can increase response rate up to 50% for mailing campaigns. This conclusion was reached by Market Research Agency Quadrangle on behalf of Royal Mail.
April 23, 2008
AddressDoctor is extending its geocoding ability by 13 additional countries. With this expansion, addresses from North America and many Eastern European countries can be geocoded in addition to the previously covered regions.
April 16, 2008
FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) reported that Sweden and Denmark want to combine both postal organizations into a publicly-traded company within the next five years. The merger is intended to secure the competitive position of the combined organization in the highly competitive international postal market.
April 10, 2008
AddressDoctor announces its monthly reference database release. Monthly updates are especially important for countries with high change rates of addresses, including: the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. AddressDoctor's customers benefit by always keeping address files up-to-date and thereby maintaining superior customer relationship management.
April 1, 2008
AddressDoctor will be exhibiting at the ATM Arabian Travel Market May 6 through May 9. The event is hosted at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, UAE. Arabian Travel Market is the industry's leading travel and tourism exhibition in the Middle Eastern and pan-Arabian region.
March 17, 2008
Don't forget to update your addresses from New Zealand! As of July 1, 2008, it will be mandatory for bulk mailers to use the new postal codes to qualify for bulk mail discounts.
March 10, 2008
AddressDoctor's monthly release of country databases is now available. Significantly new data was implemented for Lesotho and Slovenia. Updates of all reference databases not only include changes on address entries. AddressDoctor also performs measures to improve the quality of address processing.
February 26, 2008
Kosovo has declared its independence from Serbia. AddressDoctor will list Kosovo as the 247th country when an ISO-code is assigned to this country. Postal code data for Kosovo, created by the UN Interim Administration, are already available to the public.
February 19, 2008
A new interface (version 2.3) of the AddressDoctor Web Services has been published.
The new interface, represented by a slightly modified WSDL, is made available in addition to the currently existing version.
February 12, 2008
Continuous maintenance of the reference database for well developed countries as well as for developing countries and territories makes AddressDoctor's solutions unique. Today, AddressDoctor's new release includes 19 databases covering 43 countries and territories. Completely new or significantly improved databases are available for Albania, Republic of Moldova, Mozambique and Pakistan.
February 8, 2008
AddressDoctor's Postal Code Lookup is now available in two additional languages. This will enable even more users around the world to access the system.
February 1, 2008
Correos del Ecuador published new postal codes in December 2007. The revision of the postal codes is part of the modernization of postal services in Ecuador.
January 22, 2008
In order to accommodate the increased market demands and to serve our customers better, AddressDoctor has established an official North American organization.
January 21, 2008
The first release of the country databases for 2008 is now available. The database have been updated to improve the processing and to bring existing entries up to date.
January 10, 2008
AddressDoctor has achieved CASS Certification for its software libraries. The United States Postal Service (USPS) defined new CASS Certification requirements for the current CASS Cycle L including DPV and LACSLink.
January 9, 2008
Correos de Costa Rica intends to implement a standardized system of addresses. According to Los Angeles Times, the postal service is assigning numbers, street names and postal codes to every home and building in the country, which measures about 20,000 square miles. A descriptive form of addressing is currently used by most senders in Costa Rica, geared to Points of Interests like Churches, Schools – or quite recently better known locations like "Pizza Hut" (see AddressDoctor News from August 20, 2007).
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