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industry-related news.
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Announcements
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11/20/09—New!
The University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry encountered a problem–too many patient address errors in their database.
Read how the clinic successfully cleaned their database of bad addresses and cut back on returned mail.
10/26/09—New!
Accurate Contact Data is the Difference Between Life and Death. To further its promise to customers, APX needed to verify its customer’s contact information. Find out how they were able to accomplish this with the click of a button.
10/12/09—
Are Duplicate Records Eroding Your Bottom Line? One major root cause of bad data is duplicate records. Most data contains “non-exact matching” duplicate records that are difficult to identify. What's the solution to this? Fuzzy matching.
Read more about fuzzy matching in our new white paper "The Case for Fuzzy Matching to Find Not-So-Obvious Duplicates."
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MAILERS+4 Newsletter |
November 2009 issue
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for the latest MAILERS+4 Known Issues.
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Support News |
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New Products
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June 2009—
New DQWS Infrastructure Upgrades. Melissa Data
has incorporated a new secondary ISP at our corporate
offices in California, in addition to another server
cluster on this new connection. This upgrade will serve
to increase peak throughput, redundancy, and response
times of the Data Quality Web Services. Altogether, this
will give the DQWS four distinct geographically
distributed nodes for maximum scalability and
reliability.
Learn more about DQWSv2 here.
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Press Releases |
11/16/09—New!
Melissa Data announced today a new solution that allows users to identify where Internet visitors are coming from to help increase click-through and sales. The new IP Locator Object, which is available as either an API or as a Web service, helps companies identify an Internet user’s geographical location, including country, region, city, lat/long, ZIP Code™, ISP and domain name, all without invading, or being perceived as invading, the visitor’s privacy.
Read the full press release here.
10/19/09—
Melissa Data Announces a New Addition to Address Object and MAILERS+4®
—AddressPlus! The new add-on will analyze residential address records that are identified during ZIP+4™ encoding and will append those records with the right apartment number based on the last name, if available.
Read the full press release here.
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Industry News |
International 11/20/09—
Prices for letters and postcards delivered by Deutsche Post within Germany will remain the same next year. The Federal Network Agency has accepted the respective pricing proposal of Deutsche Post.
US 11/20/09—
The U.S. Postal Service® today updated the list of retail stations and branches that remain under review for possible consolidation, with only 241 offices still under review.
International 11/19/09—
UK Mail (Business Post) has reported an 11 percent fall in revenue from its parcel delivery service - from £9.6m to £80m. The company blamed the fall on the impact of the recession.
US 11/19/09—
In its first-ever sustainability report, the USPS® showed a decrease in total energy use of 9 percent from 2005 to 2008. The agency is also increasing opportunities for the public to recycle junk mail and other paper.
International 11/18/09—
Twelve years after setting up its base for international air cargo operations in India,
FedEx Corp. has begun domestic express service for the Indian market.
US 11/18/09—
PMG John Potter used the open session of the Nov. 13 USPS® Board of Governors meeting to press again for structural reform of the agency, by reducing the number of delivery days from six to five per week.
International 11/17/09—
Some CWU representatives are claiming that Royal Mail is already breaking the spirit of the peace agreement, leading to speculation that strikes could resume in the coming weeks.
US 11/17/09—
The USPS®
today filed its 2009 fiscal year-end financial results, showing a net loss of $3.8 billion for the year
— despite cost-cutting efforts resulting in $6 billion in cost savings and a $4 billion reduction.
International 11/16/09—
The UPU Council of Administration (CA) ended its 2009 session on Friday. The CA approved a proposal to formalize the relationship between the UPU and the International Organization for Migration.
US 11/16/09—
Do you pass the droop test? The droop test measures the flexibility of catalogs.
The USPS® extended the deadline for the deflections standard implementation from September 8, 2009 to January 4, 2010.
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