The experts are responsible for collecting data and analyzing the elements making up international addresses. Use directly or ask your service provider to integrate the Universal POST*CODE® DataBase to supplement and empower your current database: Discover this ready-to-use, quarterly updated and documented data from official sources at: www.upu.int/en/upcdb.html
Your one-stop address: postcode@upu.int
This worldwide database of raw postcode data converted to a uniform format has been designed to meet your domestic and international address validation needs:

• Online retailers
  
• Delivery industry
  
• Infrastructure and transport
  
• Customs
  
• Financial services, anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, surveying
  
• Customer relationship management (CRM)
  
• Master data management (MDM)
  
• Geographic information systems (GIS)
  

The UPUEstablished in 1874, the Universal Postal Union (UPU), with its headquarters in the Swiss capital Berne, is the second oldest international organization worldwide.Specialized agency of the United Nations, with its 192 member countries, the UPU is the primary forum for cooperation between postal sector players. It helps to ensure a truly universal network of up-to-date products and services. In this way, the organization fulfils an advisory, mediating and liaison role, and provides technical assistance where needed. It sets the rules for international mail exchanges and makes recommendations to stimulate growth in mail, parcel and financial services volumes and improve quality of service for customers.

The Addressing UnitThe experts, working in the field of international postal addressing and in permanent contact with the postal designated operators, are responsible for collecting data and analyzing the elements making up international addresses. Our objective: satisfy your address quality requirements with our tailor-made solutions.

POST*CODE® Products and Services, Addressing Standards - For your address data quality and integrity.

Access our Postal Addressing Systems information base to ensure your address is written correctly at: www.upu.int/en/pasmc.htmlUse directly or ask your service provider to integrate the Universal POST*CODE® DataBase to look up, validate, cleanse your addresses. This worldwide database of raw postcode or zip code data contains the best addressing data converted in a uniform format. It has been designed to meet your domestic and international address validation needs to improve the quality of addresses and to reduce the volume of non-deliverable mail. Discover this ready-to-use, quarterly updated and documented data from official sources at: www.upu.int/en/upcdb.htmlThis top-notch know-how is used (1) for developing standards in coordination with other standardization organizations like CEN and ISO. The UPU S42 "International postal address components and templates" comprises of a generic list of address elements and country specific templates that tell users how to transform address elements into an accurately formatted address and (2) for assisting countries with the introduction or improvement of their addressing systems.

For these unique professional tools, for a trial, we should be happy to answer any question you have, preferably by e-mail.

Your one-stop-address: postcode@upu.int
MESSE-INFORMATIONEN:

• Post-Expo
  
• DMA
  
• SIBOS
  
• ITxpo
  
• World Mail & Express
  
• DGI
  
• MDM
  
• NPF
  
• etc.