Data solutions

Driving marketing success with data

Canada Post’s data solutions help you better understand your audience, reach the best customers and prospects and accurately attribute campaign results. Want help choosing the best option?

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Canada’s largest geolocation targeting database

Our Data Intelligence team has the data you need to ensure you target your ideal prospects and get the best possible campaign results.

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15 million addresses

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1 million businesses

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+1200 targeting aspects

Data targeting, insights, measurement and optimization

Data visualization

See how your customer data overlaps with store locations, prior campaign results and audience characteristics to refine your targeting strategy.

  • View results and optimize future campaigns
  • Uncover new audience insights
  • Create effective campaign strategies
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Rent our prospect lists

Acquire ideal customers, targeting residential and business addresses by geography, demographics, income or revenue and much more.

  • Increase targeting precision
  • Drive customer action
  • Access Canada’s most actionable geolocation database

Clean your customer list

Ensure you have accurate addresses, getting your message into more homes and businesses while reducing undeliverable mail costs.

  • Increase response rates
  • Reduce costs and improve ROI
  • Maintain customer relationships with up-to-date names and addresses

License our data

Build your own mailing lists and run in-depth post-campaign analyses by using our data tools to understand your audience and optimize targeting.

  • Target your ideal postal codes
  • Link demographics with locations
  • Improve market segmentation and penetration with advanced analytics

The postal code is key

Postal codes unlock data assets that help you market to the right people, letting you target your audience in a more surgical and cost-effective way.

A hub of intelligence for marketers, postal codes provide a wealth of information including where Canadians shop, what they drive, their household income, age, family structure, interests, whether they own pets or have recently moved and so much more.

Postal code explanation, first 3 characters target approx. 9,000 addresses, last 3 characters target approx. 20 addresses.

Seeing is believing

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Costco’s data success story

Retail powerhouse Costco has used Canada Post’s data tools and solutions to achieve incredible direct mail campaign results, including a 94% lift in new memberships from targeted areas and an attributed $84M in sales in 2022.

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The power of data visualization

Data visualization is a vital tool for businesses to find new customers, target the competition or make a case for a new marketing strategy. Learn 5 ways data visualization reveals marketing possibilities and enables informed decision making.

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End-to-end campaign support

Our expert partners can handle your campaign design, targeting and execution.

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Find a partner

The Essential Guide to Direct Mail

Learn how to plan, integrate and execute direct mail campaigns with this free guide.

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Download the guide

Free, online Precision Targeter™

Use our interactive maps and demographic data to execute your next campaign.

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Try Precision Targeter

INCITE magazine

Read thought-provoking marketing content that inspires.

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Browse the magazine

Have more questions?

We can help validate your customer data, develop your target audience and identify postal codes to find your best customers. Contact us to find out more.

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