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Incorrect address data – what can you do so it doesn’t limit your business?

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Do you often encounter situations in which customers, users or recipients provide incomplete or incorrect address data? Do you wonder if and how their behavior can affect your company’s processes and overall business health? In this article, we’ll take a look at common problems with wrong address data, their scale, their effects on your business […]

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Do you often encounter situations in which customers, users or recipients provide incomplete or incorrect address data? Do you wonder if and how their behavior can affect your company’s processes and overall business health?

In this article, we’ll take a look at common problems with wrong address data, their scale, their effects on your business and ways to deal with them. We will use up-to-date market information from the first quarter of 2023.

#1 Incorrect postal codes

An incorrect postal code is a common problem that can negatively affect logistics processes, goods delivery and customer service. Many companies from various industries, such as e-commerce, logistics and financial services, face this challenge on a daily basis.

In the table below, we have presented the most common types of errors in this area and their scale, broken down by 3 industries – logistics, ecommerce and finance.