5. A computer-implemented method of scoring and maintaining address data for any of a plurality of records in an address database, comprising: maintaining a package-level detail database of active shipment records, each active shipment record comprising an active tracking number, an active ship-to address, and an active delivery pattern code; maintaining an electronic archive of delivery records, each delivery record comprising a past tracking number, a past ship-to address, a past delivery pattern code, and a stop identifier; gathering address data via a database management system from said detail database and said archive into a queue for a period of days; scoring said address data in said queue; building a consignee staging queue for storing those data in said queue related to a select consignee location; assigning a mining key to a current parcel selected from said consignee staging queue, said mining key comprising a parcel tracking number and a current delivery pattern code; comparing said mining key to said package-level detail database and said archive by having one or more computer components execute logic for: (a) retrieving from said archive those select delivery records having a past delivery pattern code that matches said current delivery pattern code, each of said select delivery records having a select past ship-to address; (b) retrieving from said package-level detail database those select active shipment records having an active ship-to address that matches any said select past ship-to address in said select delivery records; building a set of mined data comprising said select delivery records and said select active shipment records; prioritizing said set of mined data in order of the records most closely associated with said mining key, such that a preferred address related to said mining key occurs first, by having said one or more computer components execute logic for: (a) replacing one or more sequence values in a plurality of ship-to address records stored in said set of mined data with a representative symbol; (b) clustering together those said ship-to address records having the same stop identifier; and (c) clustering together those said ship-to address records having the same delivery pattern code; and assigning said preferred address to said current parcel and updating said address database.
5. A computer-implemented method of scoring and maintaining address data for any of a plurality of records in an address database, comprising: maintaining a package-level detail database of active shipment records, each active shipment record comprising an active tracking number, an active ship-to address, and an active delivery pattern code; maintaining an electronic archive of delivery records, each delivery record comprising a past tracking number, a past ship-to address, a past delivery pattern code, and a stop identifier; gathering address data via a database management system from said detail database and said archive into a queue for a period of days; scoring said address data in said queue; building a consignee staging queue for storing those data in said queue related to a select consignee location; assigning a mining key to a current parcel selected from said consignee staging queue, said mining key comprising a parcel tracking number and a current delivery pattern code; comparing said mining key to said package-level detail database and said archive by having one or more computer components execute logic for: (a) retrieving from said archive those select delivery records having a past delivery pattern code that matches said current delivery pattern code, each of said select delivery records having a select past ship-to address; (b) retrieving from said package-level detail database those select active shipment records having an active ship-to address that matches any said select past ship-to address in said select delivery records; building a set of mined data comprising said select delivery records and said select active shipment records; prioritizing said set of mined data in order of the records most closely associated with said mining key, such that a preferred address related to said mining key occurs first, by having said one or more computer components execute logic for: (a) replacing one or more sequence values in a plurality of ship-to address records stored in said set of mined data with a representative symbol; (b) clustering together those said ship-to address records having the same stop identifier; and (c) clustering together those said ship-to address records having the same delivery pattern code; and assigning said preferred address to said current parcel and updating said address database. 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein said step of comparing further comprises having one or more computer components execute logic for: (c) retrieving from said archive those additional delivery records having a past delivery pattern code that matches any said current delivery pattern code in said select active shipment records, each of said additional delivery records having an additional past ship-to address; (d) retrieving from said package-level detail database those additional active shipment records having an active ship-to address that matches any said select additional ship-to address in said additional delivery records; and repeating steps (c) and (d) in a plurality of iterations until said step of building a set of mined data reaches a limit condition.