Universal Address &#40;AddressPal&#41;

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Universal Address (AddressPal)

Ideated February 20th, 2012

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Jared Chipkin

The real market is everyone who purchases things on the internet. When you checkout on a new site when buying an item you inevitably will have to put in your shipping and/or billing address. This idea will make that much simpler. .
March 3rd
Tom Fair

A final thought: Kahalid, you have an interesting extension of your business model here. Companies pay very big money for updated addresses (the entire direct mail industry depends on that). AddressPal would really be the ultimate source of current addresses, because it would be updated the instant the address changes, instead of 6 months later when the company finally gets the address-change notice.
June 2nd
Tom Fair

Khalid, the building of such a service is not the problem. The problem is getting industry buy-in (Amazon, Wells Fargo, government agencies, etc.) If you're serious about executing, I could build the system if you have someone who can work the sales side.
June 2nd
Tom Fair

Good point, Sam. I think the answer is to require the user's verification of the address. That would be no different than filling in the address at the point of purchase. Similarly with banks. I often use generic deposit slips on which I enter my address. That's really no different than having a form on a Web site / Phone App / ATM that you fill out when making an electronic payment. Now, you just verify that the AddressPal address is current.
June 2nd
Khalid Kalbat

Just for your thoughts:
Instead of having Amazon, for example, to access my account on AddressPal to get the address everytime the address is required, Amazon authorizes AddressPal to access an Update Flag. Simply, if I change my address on AddressPal, this Update Flag is updated on Amazon, Ebay, Target,,,etc and this initiates the updating process and Amazon accesses AddressPal to update the address in their database.
February 20th, 2012
Khalid Kalbat

I really can't estimate the market, but lets not limit it to "Movers".
I think we use paypal it is a matter of convenience nothing more and now it is being used by almost every website as a payment gateway. My point is, such service should start from the fact that it is convenient.
How to start? We should convince one top service provider to adopt it because it is "Convenient" for their customers. Not an easy job, but a prototype and an open door for collabration with that provider could help!
February 20th, 2012
Sam Tarakajian

As someone who changes my address--if not my country--once every few months, I'm all over this idea. I wonder how it would work, though?

In the first use case I'm trying to order something to a new address. Annoying--now I have to enter a new address, even though I've already entered that address elsewhere. If only I could just point so some address book with an API!

But for something like a bank they want a permanent address. I doubt they'd let me point to some shapeshifting adress chimera.
February 20th, 2012
Madhav Krishna

That's a great idea, Khalid! I would definitely use such a service. I wonder, though, if people move often enough in general, to this -- can you estimate the size of the market?
February 20th, 2012

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