2024 Q4

Germany Expanded Data

Germany is the first international office that Melissa initially expanded to. This has always been a critical country for us and our clients. We have added more specialized use cases here and data to further support our users.

• Specialized logic for companies that have their own postal code. These bulk postal codes have a custom logic for verifying addresses and parsing the input.
• For several towns in the Austrian mountains, they have both an Austrian version of the address and a German version of the address as they can only receive mail from Germany. We have added the German version of these Austrian addresses to our Germany data.

China

We are excited to finally announce the release of our new China engine. We have been working hard on this next iteration for China. The following have been a big focus:

• Improved parsing of unverified records
• Improved Latin conversion (using Road instead of Lu)
• Improved fuzzy matching and decreased false matches

Luxembourg

We have upgraded our data for Luxembourg to high quality governmental address data and geocodes. Even though this is a small country, they have the highest per capital GDP of any country in the world!

 UPCOMING 

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

Continued Germany Improvement

We have released several improvements in this quarterly release. However, we are not quite done yet! We continue to look for ways to improve and expand our product.

• DLH Parcel Shop Locations 
  Small stores/locations operated by DHL that accepts package deliveries
• Improved fuzzy matching between similar thoroughfares

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.

Non-Postal Data

Non-Postal Data is a specialty for Melissa. We have long offered the ability to verify real addresses in the United States but are not available in the USPS database. We have been making a push in multiple countries to expand our coverage and add new data.

• United States: The US is a large and vast country with many rural areas. We are on track to increase our non-USPS data to 10 million real physical address points.
• Canada: Non-postal data would be a new introduction here.
• Australia: We already have some data incorporated into the release with more to come.
• More countries are in the pipeline as well. Stay tuned!