Address Standardization and Correction

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Address correction standardizes your address, city, province and postal code data. Spelling mistakes and formatting errors are automatically fixed, and a status code is appended to indicate which changes were made.

We create a secondary set of address columns and store the corrected data there - we never overwrite your existing data unless you tell us to.

There are two procedures commonly referred to as "address correction" - one in which the correction rules are certified by Canada Post's SERP (Software Evaluation and Recognition Program), and one in which statistical reference data is used to perform the validation and correction.

SERP-recognized software or services are what your letter shop or mail house uses to process your file so you can receive discounts from Canada Post. It is equivalent to CASS certification in the USA.

The SERP-recognized software that we have seen results from does a good job with normal urban address data. However, it often fails to correct such simple things as changing "10 AVE" to "10TH AVE" (or the reverse, where applicable).

That's where our Singularity™ Correction address standardization service can save you money.

Our Singularity Correction system matches and corrects more addresses than the SERP-recognized services, which makes it ideal for cleaning up your data before it goes to the letter shop.

We guarantee that using our service before sending your list to a letter shop will result in higher accuracy rates and larger postal discounts, or we will refund your money.

We only charge $3.00^(*) per thousand records, and in most cases, you only need to run your data through once.  To save you even more money, if you want to run your list through Singularity Correction on a regular basis, we can keep track of which of your records will not need correction, and act only on those that do. Maintaining that tracking data costs $1/M per year but will save you up to 70% of our already inexpensive fees. You also won't need to think about which records to send for correction. Simply send all your data, and we'll sort out which ones need work.

We'll also keep track of which postal codes Canada Post has made changes to, and how many records you have that are affected by changes made by Canada Post.

Here's an example:

Call us right now, toll-free at 1-877-461-4437 and start improving your data!

(*) Restrictions: This rate is only offered for data which is, in our sole opinion, not unreasonably dirty or corrupt. We reserve the right to examine data prior to starting a job to ensure that it fits within the parameters of this service.