To those of you who use AddressFinder. I am interested in your answers to the following: Were you aware that AddressFinder returns NEW addresses with the County from the OLD address on it? Do you expect the service to work this way? Do you expect the service to return the address with the county blank...

Recently we ran our data through addressfinder and when we received it back some of the addresses that had data in the address box that was not recongnized by addressfinder was deleted. ex: Some of my donors don't give a home address and their prefered address is the business with the business name...

We are required by the USPS to store a participant code on every record in our database that would be pulled on a mailing list. This is because we will be participating in the electronic address change service. The code will consist of seven alpha characters and will be the same for every record. The...

Does anyone know where our organization can go, online, to look up privacy laws concerning donors and updating change of address through 3rd party venders (such as RE)? We are investigating using AddressFinder and AddressAccelerater, and all processes have come to a hult when we discovered the release...

We are about to run our addresses through the AddressFinder (DHC). With the newer version of RE (7.82.1514), you can choose to have the addresses come back UN-abbreviated. So for example, instead of getting addresses back with Rd and Ave, you'll get Road and Avenue. I am told this also means that...

I recently used AddressFinder service. I don't think it is beneficial because I sent 50,000 records and only had 1100 changed addresses. Also, addressfinder only checks the last 3 years. Does anyone have any other service of BB that they use that is more beneficial? Veronica D. Stubbs Coordinator...

We just received our first results back from AddressFinder. I discovered that when it updates addresses that have PO Boxes (for instance the college students), it removed the PO Box. Our rep suggested that we put the PO Box in attributes which you can print on labels and envelopes. The problem is that...

We used Blackbaud's AddressFinder service for the first time about a month and a half before we did a mail drop. From that drop, we've gotten HUNDREDS, of pieces returned to us with bad addresses, including many of those that were updated by the AddressFinder. At the rate they are being returned...

We are looking at using the AddressFinder service offerred by Blackbaud, but are unsure how accurate and convenient this service is. If anyone who has tried this service, could please email me off the forum at [Email Removed], I would appreciate it. Thank You, Josh Luedeman Development Systems Associate...