Royal Mail’s Address Management Unit has published new Postcode Address File (PAF) licences which will come into effect from 1 April 2010. The new licences have been developed following a consultation ...

From July this year small charities will no longer have to pay to use the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File, the tool that helps organisations standardise, update and manage address data. Royal Mail ...

Royal Mail should make its paid-for postcode address file (PAF) listing the locations of 29m residences available for free, says the Open Data User Group, whose chair was appointed by Cabinet Office ...

Fed up with paying for the postcode address file or being restricted in the uses you can make of it? An initiative to create an independent, open source version of the Royal Mail’s postcode data is ...

Postcode Address File (PAF) should have been kept as open data for government, says committee MPs and open data advocates have attacked the government’s selloff of postcode data in the privatisation ...

The Commons Public Administration Committee says the Postcode Address File should have been retained as a “national asset” freely available to all for the widest benefit of the economy The Royal Mail ...

In its 10th anniversary year, the Strategic Mailing Partnership has joined the Postcode Address File (PAF) Advisory Board. The move coincides not only with the SMP’s anniversary but with the 60th ...

Hail from Avon? You could soon be telling people you are from BS11. Royal Mail have revealed they are planning to remove county names form the official Postcode Address File by 2016. The file is used ...

The Postcode Address File contains all known UK delivery addresses The inclusion of a valuable database of postcodes and addresses in the Royal Mail flotation has been criticised by an influential ...

The Postcode Address File contains all known UK delivery addresses The inclusion of a valuable database of postcodes and addresses in the Royal Mail flotation has been criticised by an influential ...