New Cure for Common Codes—ZIP & Area—in Free Web Service

Find a missing ZIP code, correct a misspelled city name, complete a partial street address, update an area code… all in an instant with a visit to MelissaData.com

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (November 8, 2002) — Data services provider Melissa Data today announced that its Web resource for postal, business, and civic data registers more than 175,000 page views per day, providing visitors with hard-to-find information in just a few seconds.

Want to find where a phone call originated? Need to locate a lake, school, historical building, or mountain summit? Curious about household income in your neighborhood? With just a few keystrokes at http://www.MelissaData.com/lookups, you’ll find these answers, and more, packaged neatly in 16 search categories.

Melissa Data’s Lookups service is free, fast, easy, and certified by the United States Postal Service for accuracy. This is where you’ll find ZIP codes, street names, addresses, area codes, business codes, time zones, county statistics, and income tax averages. MelissaData.com’s volume of traffic puts it in the top one percent of all Web sites, according to Alexa Internet Inc., a division of Amazon.com.

“Thousands of visitors explore this site every day to solve data problems,” said Ray Melissa, president of Melissa Data. “We have Realtors, lawyers, court personnel, investigators, mothers, classmates, government officials, salespeople, and many others coming to this Web site to get missing information to complete their work or home assignments.”

“This site has saved me hours of frustration in securing ZIP codes,” offered Lou Rogers, board secretary, Child Advocacy Center, Ninth Judicial District of Tennessee.

“I take care of street problems for the Baltimore County Election Office. Your Web site makes my work a lot easier,” said Diana Moran, Baltimore, MD. Melissa Data’s Lookups service matches the address data submitted against the monthly updates of the U.S. Postal Service’s file of 128 million deliverable addresses.

About Melissa Data
Celebrating its 20th year in business, Melissa Data, the Data Superstore, helps companies manage and optimize their contact data. Melissa Data provides solutions for address and phone number validation, postal coding, data enhancements and sales leads. Every day more than 70,000 people visit the company’s Web site. A powerful line of software, databases, programming tools, and hygiene services has made Melissa Data a recognized leader in the data quality industry. For more information, or to request trial software, contact Melissa Data at 1-800-800-6245 or visit www.melissadata.com