News Archiv 2007

December 21, 2007
AddressDoctor's offices are closed from December 24th, 2007 to January 1st, 2008. The AddressDoctor team wishes you a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year 2008!
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December 18, 2007
Royal Mail has announced the reassignment of the LE16 8 and LE15 6 to 9 postcode sectors regarding the correct administrative county of Rutland. County information is not required in British addresses, but many senders are still including county information in addresses.
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December 10, 2007
In December AddressDoctor has released 20 databases covering 44 countries and territories. Significantly new and enhanced databases are available for Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Nepal and Ukraine.
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December 5, 2007
After returning mail with UN-bid postmarks to senders by Chinese post offices, Taiwan Post will stamp mail with slogans for Taiwan's independence only upon request. The postmarks including "UN for Taiwan" are part of a campaign ahead of a referendum planned in March on whether Taiwan should apply to join the UN under the name Taiwan instead of its official title "Republic of China".
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December 4, 2007
The AddressDoctor Postal Code Lookup, a popular tool for users around the world, is now available in three additional languages.
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November 27, 2007
Albania's Postal operator Posta Shqiptare puts postal codes into operation and publishes this data. Currently the new codes are only sparely used.
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November 20, 2007
New ISO codes were assigned to Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin in October 2007.
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November 12, 2007
AddressDoctor's database release for November contains new data for Madagascar and Nauru in addition to the regularly updated databases. AddressDoctor maintains high quality databases of large countries as well as smaller ones in order to ensure that your mail reaches its destination, whether that is Åland Islands or the United States.
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November 7, 2007
The liberalization of the Canadian postal system has begun. On Monday, October 29, 2007, the Canadian government introduced a bill that would drop Canada Post's exclusive privilege to deliver international letters. Representatives of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) worry that if this legislation is approved, Canada Post would not be able to satisfy its Universal Service Obligation, especially in rural and remote areas.
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October 29, 2007
Korea Post will support Mongolia and Kazakhstan as they modernize their postal operations. On October 8-9, 2007, the cooperation committee "KoMoKa" was formed at a meeting in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and further steps defined.
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October 24, 2007
AddressDoctor's offices will be closed from December 24th, 2007 to January 1st, 2008.
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October 22, 2007
The first ever postal code for the 2008 Olympic Games, "102008" was officially announced in Beijing on 1 August 2007. In an interview with the China Economic Review Mr. Hu Zhong Yuan, Director of Beijing Post, first class postal services during the Olympic Games was promised.
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October 17, 2007
Once again AddressDoctor has significantly improved its reference databases. AddressDoctor is proud to release a comprehensive Hong Kong database. Further country databases are available with significantly new or enhanced data. These databases were released along with a software update required to accommodate the various changes for the respective countries.
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October 9, 2007
Last Monday, the Transport and Communications Ministers of the European Union agreed on regulations for the liberalization of the postal market. The agreement is based on the vote of the EU-parliament, which was reached in first reading in July 2007 (See AddressDoctor News from July 30, 2007 ). This regulation is therefore expected to pass in the EU-parliament during the second reading without any further obstacles.
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September 25, 2007
In an interview with Reuters, Posta Uganda’s managing director Alex Mulooki stated that African post services must diversify otherwise they will fail. Accordingly, Mulooki is targeting lucrative businesses, like money transfer, direct marketing and electronic communication.
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September 17, 2007
Finland Post is planning to modernize its country-wide sorting network. The French company SOLYSTIC will be the main partner for this important project.
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September 12, 2007
September database updates are available. This month, 18 databases covering 38 countries and territories are being released with new or enhanced data. Armenia, Costa Rica and Tuvalu come with significantly improved data.
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September 4, 2007
New licence terms for Royal Mail (United Kingdom) are effective as of September 1, 2007. These changes mainly affect customers using Interactive Web Services for British addresses. Also new privacy regulations now require additional paperwork from customers outside the European Economic Area.
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August 27, 2007
Sign up for the AddressDoctor RSS feeds and stay informed about the latest news. AddressDoctor is excited to provide you with the ability to keep you informed about the latest general AddressDoctor news as well as worldwide postal news, quickly and automatically via an RSS feed.
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August 21, 2007
AddressDoctor will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the Gartner Master Data Management Summit on September 19-21 2007 at the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, FL. Company experts will be on site to demonstrate AddressDoctor’s unique Address Verification solutions.
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August 20, 2007
Costa Rica introduced new postal codes and a new address format in March 2007. The basic principles are explained in the standard “Norma Técnica, Asignación de Direcciones, Señalización, Código Postal y Nuevo Estándar de Direcciones”.
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August 14, 2007
With the data release for August AddressDoctor adds Jamaica to the list of significantly improved databases. Sixteen new databases for 38 countries and territories were released by AddressDoctor.
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July 30, 2007
EurActiv.com has reported that the complete liberalization of the European postal market was postponed by the European Parliament until 2011, the trade unions, however, could not prevent the complete opening.
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July 23, 2007
Effective 1 June 2007, Finland Post was renamed Itella.
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July 16, 2007
The United States Postal Services (USPS) defined new CASS Certification requirements for the next CASS Cycle. AddressDoctor is already working to adjust its engine in order to achieve the new CASS Certification for its software libraries shortly.
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July 9, 2007
Today AddressDoctor released new reference databases. Significantly enhanced data is available for South Africa. AddressDoctor Enterprise customers can download the new databases from the AddressDoctor Web Site. All AddressDoctor Web Services will be using the new databases immediately after their release.
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July 2, 2007
With the introduction of Ireland’s new Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan, the plans of postal codes in Ireland are still uncertain.
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June 25, 2007
Arab News has reported that Saudi Post President Dr. Muhammad Bantan has signed an agreement on June 12th with Jeddah Mayor Adel Fakieh in order to unify postal addresses in Jeddah. The ceremony was the formal conclusion of agreements, started last year, that pave the way for other Saudi municipalities to benefit from the Saudi Post initiative known as “The New Addressing and Symbolization program”.
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June 18, 2007
New owner and president of La Poste Gabon, Alfred Mabika, presented new business objectives for his organization. The former public postal organization Gabon Poste was liquidated due to inefficiency last year.
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June 12, 2007
AddressDoctor releases a record number of updated countries. Continuous work in data research and data development assures that AddressDoctor customer always uses the most recent data.
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June 5, 2007
Ireland is planning the introduction of a postal code system by 1 January 2008.
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May 29, 2007
Egypt’s postal code system is under revision. Egypt Post targeted a release in Q1 2007, but has not announced the new postal codes yet. AddressDoctor will keep you informed about further progress.
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May 21, 2007
Jamaica Post has suspended the use and implementation of postal codes until further notice.
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May 14, 2007
Ecuador Post is planning the introduction of new postal codes.
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May 7, 2007
The database release for May contains numerous enhancements and changes. AddressDoctor has updated the reference data for 37 countries and territories. Estonia and New Zealand have new data.
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April 30, 2007
British Virgin Islands Post (BVI) has introduced postal codes.
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April 23, 2007
Barbados Postal Service is going to introduce postal codes shortly. A live test for districts served by the Brittons Hill Post Office is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of the new system.
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April 16, 2007
Maltapost announced new postal codes in April 2007. The change was necessary due to the restructuring of Maltapost’s distribution system and to further enhance efficiencies.
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April 10, 2007
New reference databases are available! Up to date data for Austria made available by Austria Post enables accurate address cleaning with the AddressDoctor software libraries as well as the Web Service. Also Hungarian data from the Hungarian postal operator Mygar Posta are now integrated in the AddressDoctor databases.
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March 26, 2007
Armenian postal operator Haypost CJSC puts new postal codes into operation. The six digits codes inherited from the Soviet times have been changed to four digit codes.
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March 19, 2007
Long-awaited reform of China's postal system has begun with the establishment of the new State Postal Bureau and China Post Group Corp.
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March 12, 2007
Only recent and accurate data allows for proper mail addressing. Once again, with this month’s database release, AddressDoctor customers will have access to numerous regularly updated databases. Jordan is listed with new data.
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March 5, 2007
Over the years AddressDoctor has maintained good relations with the Dominican Republic’s Postal Service. As a result, it was the first recipient of their newly revised and updated address database.
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February 26, 2007
Please note that as of February 7th, 2007 our company's name has changed from Platon Data Technology GmbH to AddressDoctor GmbH.
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February 19, 2007
This month, along with the new software release AddressDoctor introduced new data for several countries. Bermuda and Cayman Islands launched new postal code systems and this required AddressDoctor to adapt its software accordingly. Furthermore AddressDoctor implemented the latest data for Slovakia and extended the Japanese database.
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February 12, 2007
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who took over EU presidency on January 1st, makes complete liberalization of the postal market top priority.
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January 29, 2007
On January 1st 2007, Bulgaria and Romania became members of the European Union. The new members are expected to have a positive affect on the European economy.
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January 22, 2007
Public Columbian postal operator Adpostal was liquidated.
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January 15, 2007
AddressDoctor is proud to announce that the AddressDoctor for Excel Add-In now supports Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
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January 10, 2007
With the January release AddressDoctor makes numerous enhancements to its databases. Again a large number of countries have been updated or improved. Significantly better data is available for Cyprus, Italy, Paraguay, Portugal and Sweden.
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January 9, 2007
Albania introduced postal codes in October 2006.
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