The US government sets up, monitors, and cleans out addresses on a regular basis in accordance with property changes and transfers, new roads or mailing routes, and even local municipalities. Despite this, some of these addresses will occasionally "slip through the cracks" and not be updated in official databases or be missed entirely. This can result in mail not being delivered or packages sent to the wrong place, which is bad for both customers and businesses that rely on direct mail for their marketing.
To avoid these issues, one of the best things you can do is to use a reliable address validation service. This will help ensure that your customers' and employees' address data is spelled correctly, formatted properly for mailing, and free from invalid components such as hyphenated address ranges, grid-style addresses, and rural route labels.
Most advanced third-party address verification tools will also correct commonly misspelled words in an address such as city names or street names. However, there are a number of other errors that are impossible to automatically detect and correct.
These include the fact that an address isn't registered with the Post Office or that it is vacant and no longer in use. This problem can occur because someone has moved and not signed up for their new address or because no one is living there. To combat this issue, you can offer your customers and employees a way to easily update their address information in your database or spreadsheet through a simple web form.
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