Mail Into Canada Easily and Efficiently 
With New Data Quality Solutions from Melissa Data 

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. -- April 23, 2002 -- Data quality services provider Melissa Data today announced a new line of products that make mailing and shipping into Canada easy and cost-efficient. Now you can verify, correct and standardize addresses to meet the requirements of Canada Post, the nation’s postal delivery service serving 30 million people.

With Melissa Data’s Canadian Data Quality Solutions, businesses and organizations of all sizes using any operating system can:

*Verify Canadian and U.S. addresses & phone numbers 
*Link Canadian postal codes to geographic data for efficient target marketing
*Update databases with change-of-address information filed with Canada Post 
*Increase deliverability and reduce printing and postage waste

“The ability to process Canadian addresses was the most requested addition to Melissa Data’s line of data quality products,” said Gary Van Roekel, vice president of marketing for Melissa Data. “More than 45 percent of the users of MAILERS+4, our postal automation software, asked for features that would allow them to reduce undeliverable mail and increase response rates for their Canadian files.”

Canadian Data Quality Solutions are designed to offer the utmost ease and flexibility for users. Businesses can choose from among five different options to meet their Canadian data quality needs:

MAILERS+4 Canadian Addresser. An add-on to the popular MAILERS+4 automation software, Canadian Addresser integrates with the MAILERS+4 Address Check feature. Once Canadian Addresser is downloaded and installed, MAILERS+4 will verify and correct U.S. and Canadian addresses at the same time. Moreover, users can verify phone data as well… just one pass for each phone and address check. Canadian Addresser is available as a free beta download for current MAILERS+4 users, and is compatible with both the standard and professional versions of the program.

Canadian Address Object. 
Look up and verify Canadian addresses through your Web site or custom data-capture application with Canadian Address Object. This valuable COM Object can also add time zone, and latitude & longitude information to the addresses in a database. Canadian Address Object is a developer’s tool that makes cleaning up postal addresses fast and easy.

Canadian Postal Data. 
Link Canadian addresses to geographic data to refine and enhance contact information. Canadian Postal Data is a comprehensive database of Canadian geography and address details. Append postal codes, province/city names, latitude & longitude, area codes and more.

Data Quality Web Service. 
Use this Internet verification service for real-time batch and point-of-entry verification of U.S. and Canadian address data. The Data Quality Web Service provides users of almost any platform—including Windows, UNIX, AS400, Linux, and Macintosh—an easy solution to achieving quality contact information. There’s nothing to install or maintain.

Canadian Data Enhancement Services. 
Canadian address service matches addresses to a master database of all deliverable Canadian addresses to ensure accurate mail delivery. Canadian Change of Address updates databases with “mover” information filed with Canada Post.

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