Proper Addressing Will Help You Deliver Holiday Gifts & Cheer This Season With Christmas only four weeks away, now is the time to start thinking about how to get those holiday cards and gifts to their destination on-time. Melissa Data, www.melissadata.com, a data quality software and services provider, reminds mailers to verify the destination address and include the ZIP+4 code to ensure faster processing and timely delivery. In just seconds, a user can access Melissa Data’s free Internet-based Address Check tool at http://www.MelissaData.com/addressverify and input an address before shipping or mailing. Users mailing to Canada can lookup and verify a Canadian address by visiting: http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/canadianverify. For assistance in properly formatting Canadian and international mail, users should refer to the Melissa Data International Address Formats Reference Guide, available at http://www.melissadata.com/ias or visit http://www.bitboost.com/ref/. Address Check and Canadian Address Verify are part of Melissa Data’s Free Lookups suite of search tools available at http://www.MelissaData.com/lookups. Melissa Data offers free access to over 30 “Lookup” databases and tools, including ZIP code maps, congressional district maps, US home sales by ZIP code, demographic and market data, statistics, SIC business codes and much more. It’s a one-stop shop for reference-type data at no charge. Subscriptions are available for volume users to increase their daily Lookups to 500 or more. Once addresses are verified, Melissa Data encourages users to plan for cut-off dates for holiday mailings. If you want it delivered by December 25, the shipping and mailing deadlines for domestic, military and international cards and packages can be found at:. USPS® Military & Int’l - http://www.usps.com/holiday/shippingcalendar.htm Fed Ex - http://fedex.com/us/holiday/shipping/lastdaystoship.html?link=4 UPS - http://www.pressroom.ups.com/holiday/calendar ABOUT MELISSA DATA Melissa Data is a non-exclusive NCOALink® Full Service Provider Licensee, an active DMA member, as well as a member of the DMA’s List & Database Council. For over 23 years, Melissa Data has been a leading provider of data quality solutions with emphasis on U.S., Canadian, and international address and phone verification, and postal software. Free trial software is available by visiting www.MelissaData.com