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Postal Code DataOM Products

Boost success with Postal Code data that provides detailed customer insight.

Highlights


  • Get access to exclusive Postal Code information.

  • Create effective mailing strategies.

  • Clean your own database or offer data cleansing services to your clients.

  • Reach new customers or help your customers reach new customers.

  • Analyze your customer database to get more out of your mail.

How can Postal Code data products help me?

Canada Post offers a variety of Postal Code data products to help mailers improve address quality and create effective mailing strategies that target specific audiences. These data products can also lower costs by reducing undeliverable mail and qualifying mailers for lower postage rates.


What can I do with Postal Code products?

With our tools at your fingertips, you can:

  • Verify mailing addresses.
  • Find out delivery routes (modes) for specific Postal Codes.
  • Calculate the number of pieces you’ll need for your mailing.
  • Determine delivery office (installation) information.
  • Conduct analysis on customer data.
  • And much more!

License our products for internal use or to integrate within your commercial products.


Data products offered by Canada Post

Postal Code Address Data
Improves the quality of mailing addresses and reduces the amount of undeliverable mail. If you’re a mailer or a commercial software developer looking to confirm or correct mailing addresses in an address database, Postal Code Address Data will provide you with address ranges and Postal Code information for every mail delivery address in Canada.

Price:
Business site license for as low as $5,500/year. (Other pricing options also available.)

Postal Code Address Data technical specifications
Download sample data

Delivery Mode Data
Matches delivery modes (such as letter carrier, rural route) to Postal Codes. This helps you to presort your mail according to defined requirements and possibly qualify for incentive mailing rates.

Price:
Business site license for as low as $2,500/year. (Other pricing options also available.)

Delivery Mode Data technical specifications
Download sample data

Householder Data (residential and business counts)
Helps calculate the volume and distribution requirements for your Unaddressed AdmailTM mailing by providing you with the number of houses, apartments, farms, and businesses for each urban and rural delivery installation by Forward Sortation Area (FSATM).

Price:
Business site license for as low as $2,500/year. (Other pricing options also available.)

Householder Data technical specifications
Download sample data

Householder Elite Data
Provides volume and distribution by number of houses, apartments, farms and businesses for each urban and rural delivery installation by Postal Code. The Householder Elite product links individual Postal Codes to delivery mode, householder counts, and delivery installation, helping you target your prospects at the Postal Code level and effectively plan the volume and distribution of your Unaddressed Admail mailings.

As well, Householder Elite Data contains important information about preparing your Unaddressed Admail mailing with our Electronic Shipping Tools.

Price:
Business site license for as low as $10,625/year. (Other pricing options also available.)

Householder Elite Data technical specifications
Download sample data
Create a householder import file based on Canada Post Householder Data for use with Electronic Shipping Tools.


What formats do Canada Post data products come in?

Canada Post data licenses provide 12 monthly updates and are available in the following formats:

  • CD-ROM
  • Canada Post FTP site download (fastest way to receive the updates)

2012 Monthly Data production schedule

2011 Monthly Data production schedule

Please note: Data products comprise raw data files in ASCII format and must be accessed with an application program.


How can I license Canada Post data products?

Our data products are available through licensing agreements. Commercial non-mailing use of our data products is permitted under specific terms and conditions.

How to get started:

  1. Fill out a Scope of Usage document outlining your intended use of the data.
  2. Return the completed document by mail (see mailing address within Scope of Usage document) or by fax to 416-204-4410.
  3. We’ll review your Scope of Usage document and send you the appropriate license agreement.

Support

If you have any questions about our Postal Code Data Products, contact us online or call 1 877-281-4137.