Welcome to our 2025 Quarter 1 Global Address Newsletter. We have some exciting developments in the works that we believe will be great new additions for our users.

2025 Q1

Australia Non-Postal Expansion 

Recently, we have begun adding non-postal data for Australia. This added real addresses on top of the data provided by Australia Post. With this update, we are now including over 700,000 non-postal addresses in our database.

NUTS and LAU codes

For our European friends, NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) may mean something slightly different. We are in the process of adding the three NUTS hierarchy levels (NUTS 1, NUTS 2, and NUTS 3), along with LAU (Local Administrative Units) codes as well. They are currently available for our on-premise Global Address Object users. This data will also become available for our Global Address Web Service users soon.

Canada

We have made a number of improvements to our Canadian Engine. We will now better handle the interaction between French and English in the addresses. Previously, due to being SERP certified, we had to stick to the results expected by the SERP test. Now, we are adding a secondary mode in the engine so that we can return what many people expect, while still having the option to switch to SERP mode for certification.

 UPCOMING 

We are working towards some major new updates and features in upcoming releases:

Germany Postfiliale

We are continuing to expand our coverage of all things postal in Germany. We have been working to expand our coverage, especially of Postfiliale addresses. We are happy to announce that we will be adding 22,000 Postfiliale locations for Germany in the upcoming update. This is in addition to our existing postbox data of close to 15,000 Packstations and over 1,000,000 Postfach addresses.

Mexico

We are working on a new data source for Mexico. We expect a significant improvement in the coverage and accuracy for the country when we are able to roll out this new data. We are also incorporating data from Correos de México, also known as SEPOMEX. We are very excited to have our users try out this new data. Stay tuned.

Many More Improvements in the Pipeline

Here at Melissa, we are constantly working on improving our data and engine. It is a never-ending process. Just a few upcoming items currently in the pipeline:

• Data improvement for Poland
• Data improvement for Brazil
• Data improvement for Spain
• Data improvement for Hong Kong
• New non-postal data for the United States
• New non-postal data for Canada