Data Partnership - Royal Mail Postcode Address File

Find Addresses from Postcodes

The cheapest most efficient postcode finding solution starts at £50 for a single postcode area or £300 for the national file. The file includes every Postcode (1.8 million postcodes) and every Residential & Business Address in the country (28 million addresses). This file is updated and provided quarterly. It's important to update the file frequently as around 6,000 postcode or address changes are made every month.

As you can imagine this is a very large file that will need to be hosted and indexed properly to provide instant searches so you will need a large database application that can handle the full file. The file works with Microsoft Excel or Access or any application that handles CSV text data.

The Postcode Address File (PAF) that we sell is the only complete source of all known UK addresses & Postcodes! This postcode and address file is owned and managed by us on behalf of the Royal Mail.

Direct From Royal Mail

InfoLogic are authorised Royal Mail Resellers of Postcodes and Address file solutions including PostZon (Postcodes with grid references). This gives us access to the very latest postcode address ensuring that the address data you receive is the very latest, most up-to-date available.

Postcode Address Applications

The Postcode Address File (PAF) is essential to ensure that addresses are clean, accurate and fit for purpose. The benefits of clean addresses are:

Reduce postage costs through Mailsort, Presstream and Cleanmail
Reduce the amount of undelivered mail
Preservation of brand image
Improved accuracy of customer and prospect analysis

Address Data Fields Supplied

Organisation Name
Building Name/ or house number
Street
Locality
Post town
Postcode
Grid Reference (optional)

Data can be supplied at premise level which provides a unique record for each one of the 28 million UK addresses.

Grid references can be appended to the PAF data for the appropriate licence fee or licenced separately for mapping and GIS applications.

PAF Data Coverage

PAF can be purchased as a full UK database or by individual Postcode Areas (e.g. UB, RG).

Data Supply Format

PAF can be supplied as either tab delimited text files or as an Access database. Depending on size data will either be supplied on CD or via List-Logic secure ftp site.

PAF Licensing

Data is licenced for each PC that has access to it with options for system licences and internet licences. Prices for PAF start at £50 plus VAT for a single user, please contact us for other licensing options.