| Courier software is a very comprehensive type of | | | | writing down or typing an address for a shipping label. |
| program. Because it touches on so many different | | | | Some of these types of mistakes will results in a real |
| elements within a single company, the list of features | | | | address, albeit a wrong one, being the one listed on the |
| that a courier program offers can be overwhelming. If | | | | shipping label. In many other cases though, such a |
| you are in the market for new courier dispatch | | | | mistake will result in an address which is not valid, due |
| software though, one feature that you want to be able | | | | to a conflict of some kind between the street number |
| to offer your customers is that of Address | | | | and zip code for example. This software can catch |
| Verification. | | | | such errors before a package ever moves. |
| Address verification is a great feature to look for in | | | | If a package is shipped with an incorrect address |
| your courier software, because it is going to make the | | | | without this feature, there is a good chance that a |
| client happier, and it is going to save the courier | | | | courier driver is going to try to deliver the package to |
| company some time and frustration. Whenever | | | | an address that doesn't actually exist. When this |
| someone places a request for a shipment online, the | | | | happens, you have several problems at once. The |
| address is going to be run through the courier | | | | courier company is wasting time on a delivery that will |
| software. Additionally, in most cases when a person | | | | never be completed. Because of the incorrect address |
| puts in an order over the phone, the address will be | | | | they are going to have to charge the client company a |
| entered into the same software, just by a dispatch | | | | penalty fee. Finally, the client company's customer is |
| worker instead of by the customer. This ensures that | | | | going to be unhappy when they don't receive their |
| every address that is being shipped to is going to be | | | | package on time. Incorrect addresses mean that |
| subjected to the address verification feature. | | | | everybody loses. This can be prevented whenever |
| After this address is checked in the software, you will | | | | the address isn't a real address if the courier company |
| know whether or not it is a valid US address. There | | | | that you do business with has address verification in |
| are so many ways that a mistake can be made when | | | | place. |