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There's SmartyStreets. You tried them?

Yeah, SmartyStreets sucks for a few reasons:

1) They are abusing the USPS api and charging access for it.

2) The USPS resolver sucks anyhow. "388 Townsend San Fran" yields an error. Google & Yahoo both correctly match it.

3) Their pricing is pretty expensive, imo.

How did you arrive at #1? We used USPS's api for a year before switching to SmartyStreets, and there's no way their api is powered by USPS's buggy api.

Ah, got it. How are they abusing it? You can buy that data as well from USPS.

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