Shipping fees are quite costly, partly to cover the burden of handling returns and packages that were shipped to invalid addresses. The US Postal Service (USPS) has created a set of business rules to verify address data (Coding Accuracy Support System). In exchange for shipping packages with pre-verified addresses, USPS offers reduced shipping rates for those packages.

In addition to North America IA-Team specializes in cleansing and standardizing addresses for 225 Countries/Territories world wide.