Dear AddressDoctor^® Subscribers,

In this summer issue of our newsletter we will inform you about important changes including our move and an update of the new AddressDoctor products. Starting with this newsletter we will introduce a series about the new countries that will soon become members of the European Union. We will report important facts about these countries as well as how AddressDoctor will support each of them.

We hope you enjoy this issue
Best regards

The AddressDoctor^® Team

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Just as a reminder, we moved our offices to

Platon Data Technology GmbH
Röntgenstr. 9
67133 Maxdorf
Germany

Our telephone numbers have changed as well.

Telephone: +49 6237 9774-0
Telefax: +49 6237 9774-45

At the same time we moved our servers. We are pleased to report this change was made with minimal disruption to our service.

The European Union is growing. AddressDoctor^® is prepared.

Assuming a positive outcome of the public votes in these countries, the European Union will soon grow by ten new members. All AddressDoctor products are ready for the new countries. The following is a short overview of the new countries and the level of postal data supported in AddressDoctor.

Country	ISO*	Pop.**	Cities	Postal codes	Streets
Poland	POL	33.6	yes	yes	yes
Hungaria	HUN	10.1	yes	yes	yes
Czech Republic	CZE	10.3	yes	yes	yes
Slovakia	SVK	5.4	yes	yes	yes
Slovenia	SVN	1.9	yes	yes	yes
Estonia	EST	1.4	yes	yes	yes
Latvia	LVA	2.4	yes	yes	yes
Lithuania	LTU	3.6	yes	yes	no
Cyprus	CYP	0.8	yes	yes	yes
Malta	MLT	0.4	yes	yes	yes

*) The ISO code is an abbreviation of a country defined by the International Organisation for Standardization. In addition to the three-letter ISO code there is a code with two letters and a numerical code.

**) Millions

AddressDoctor^® supports street directories in almost all European countries. In most cases, the street directories provided by the postal organizations cover the large cities. In some cases they cover the entire nation. Starting with the next newsletter we will look at the address formats and some important direct marketing facts of these countries.

There is a solution: The AddressDoctor^® Address Parser.

You're probably asking yourself: What is an Address Parser? Do I need something like that? The answer to that is easy. If your address database was created by many different people or was even compiled from different sources, then the answer most likely is yes. Address Parsing analyzes addresses, identifies the various parts and puts them into the correct fields. Often address formats are insufficient to handle multinational data. So incorrect information gets put into the street field. Not so bad? Maybe not at first glance, but when searching the database for a specific company name or street address will most likely not produce the desired results. In addition, this type of poor quality data capture practices increases the percentage of duplicates in your file.

Experience tells us: Even in a virtually perfectly structured address database the information is very rarely completely correct. Especially foreign addresses are often not placed into the correct fields. The AddressDoctor Enterprise Suite Address Parser helps. In record speed of up to 3.6 million addresses per hour it whips even completely unstructured addresses into shape. Here is an example from Canada

Transports Limited
John Miller
Transport Tower
124 Rue de Toronto
K3c 5a7 Montreal
Quebec
Canada

The AddressDoctor^® Enterprise Parser can put this information into a structured format. The result looks like this:

Company: Transports Limited
Contact: John Miller
Building: Transport Tower
Street: Rue de Toronto
House number: 124
Postal code: K3C 5A7
City: Montreal
Province: Quebec
Country: Canada

In addition this powerful parser will:

• Recognize, parse and genderize names
• Eliminate redundant telephone numbers
• Identify department names
• Restructure personal titles such as Mr, Ms, Herr, Frau, Sr, Sra

The next step is then the validation of the addresses. In this step the various parts of the addresses will be compared to postal reference data. This will reveal if the postal code K3C 5A7 really belongs to Montreal and corresponds with the indicated street.

AddressDoctor^® Enterprise is a collection of extremely powerful software libraries for users with medium to large address volumes. With complete Unicode support (more than 40 character sets) the software runs on multiple hardware and software platforms. Currently supported are Windows, Solaris and Linux.

AddressDoctor^® Enterprise is comprised of three components

CSMT - String Class with Unicode support
APSE - Address parsing
GAVE - Address validation

Become a beta tester now and take part in our free evaluation program. To participate just download the beta contract and fax it to +49 6237 9774 45. You will then receive a link to download the software.

In this column we will answer frequently asked questions about international addresses. Today's topic is the address format of Great Britain. This nation is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An address from Great Britain has this format:

ADDRESSEE
BUILDING
STREET ELEMENTS
CITY
COUNTY (not necessary any more)
POSTCODE
UNITED KINGDOM

The postcode is a combination of five to seven letters and numbers. This system was developed by the Royal Mail to simplify the sorting of the mail. A postcode is basically a simplified form of an address, that refers to a single or up to 100 delivery points. The average is about 15 delivery points per postcode.

There are two types of postcodes. Those for large volume receivers and those for regular receivers. A large volume receiver postcode was assigned to exactly one address, because a large volume of mail is delivered there.

Each postcode has two parts. The outward postcode, or outcode is separated from the inward postcode, or incode by a single space. The outward postcode makes it possible to deliver mail to the correct mail processing facility, where the inward postcode is used to deliver the mail to the addressee.

Below is a table that contains the valid postcode formats
(A=alpha, N=numeric)

A few example addresses:

LEDA ENGINEERING LTD
APPLEFORD
ABINGDON
OX14 4PG
UNITED KINGDOM

JOHN SMITH
THE MANOR
NORWOOD HILL
HORLEY
RH6 0HP
UNITED KINGDOM

Of course all AddressDoctor^® products fully support this format.

As usual there have been many data updates in the first half of 2003. Here is a list of all countries that were updated in the first six months. Note: Our data update June 2003 contains all data that has reached us in the month of June 2003. We will convert this data in July and usually send it out by the end of July, so it reaches you in the beginning of August. The July Update will reach you in September, and so on.

Australia
Barbados
Belgium
Canada
Columbia
Cyprus
Estonia
France
Germany
India
Japan
Kyrgyzstan
Liechtenstein
Mexico
Netherlands
Peru
Portugal
Rumania
Russia
Switzerland
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Turkey
Uruguay
USA
Venezuela
Yemen