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Licence Options for Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)

Postcode Address File (PAF)The Postcode Address File (PAF) is the only central source for UK residential and business addresses.  The file holds all 28 million delivery addresses and is available through us as approved Royal Mail distributors of the Postcode Address File (PAF). 

Your output is supplied under licence to the Royal Mail for 12 months use and you will receive quarterly updates during the licence period.  Be assured that the PAF file you receive shall reflect the very latest postcode and address changes.

PAF Licence Options:

Single User Licence
Multi User LicenceInternet LicenceTransaction LicenceSystem LicenceCorporate LicenceIntranet Licence

  

Postcode Address File PAF: Single User Licence:

Single User Licence - Postcode Address File PAFDefinition: An individual user or individual work station or personal terminal or personal hand-held or otherwise portable device internal to a single legal entity or owned by a single individual.  Data may not be used or made available to any other work station, terminal, pc or person at any one single point in time. 

Postcode Address File (PAF) Product Options:

Partial PAF records covering the UK from £80

Full PAF records covering the UK from £300

Full PAF records covering a single Postcode Area from £50

Updates

Quarterly within the licence period.

Fields

Partial PAF Records Full PAF Records
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

 

  • Organisation Name
  • Department Name
  • PO Box
  • Building Name
  • Sub Building Number
  • Building Number
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

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Postcode Address File PAF: Multi User Licence:

Multi User Licence - Postcode Address File PAFDefinition: Between 2 and 300 Users working for or controlled by a single organisation / legal entity.  "User" means an individual work station or terminal or hand-held or otherwise portable device internal to the single legal entity.

Postcode Address File (PAF) Product Options:

Partial PAF records covering the UK from £2,220

Full PAF records covering the UK from £8,300

Full PAF records covering a single Postcode Area from £100

Updates

Quarterly within the licence period.

Fields

Partial PAF Records Full PAF Records
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

 

  • Organisation Name
  • Department Name
  • PO Box
  • Building Name
  • Sub Building Number
  • Building Number
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

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Postcode Address File PAF: Internet / Transaction Licence:

Internet User Licence - Postcode Address File PAFDefinition: A solution whereby the licence holder operates a publicly available website (or technical equivalent)  and or offers products and services to its customers and which can offer, show, capture, verify, update or amend an address and or postcode entered by its customers against the product file.  

Postcode Address File (PAF) Product Options:

Partial PAF records covering the UK from £3,495

Full PAF records covering the UK from £6,700

Updates

Quarterly within the licence period.

Fields

Partial PAF Records Full PAF Records
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

 

  • Organisation Name
  • Department Name
  • PO Box
  • Building Name
  • Sub Building Number
  • Building Number
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

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Postcode Address File PAF: Corporate / System / Intranet Licence:

Corporate User Licence - Postcode Address File PAFDefinition: Where the End-User is a single individual organisation or legal entity trading or operating under one name, and the data is resident upon a single server or other storage device (“System”) to which two or more Users employed by the Corporation are directly or indirectly connected.  This Licence allows for use on an Intranet but may not be used on a system where entities or persons outside of the Corporation may access or view the data or parts of the data.  If the data is to be used across the Internet on a web site for instance then an additional Internet Licence should be purchased. 

Postcode Address File (PAF) Product Options:

Partial PAF records covering the UK from £4,995

Full PAF records covering the UK from £17,995

Updates

Quarterly within the licence period.

Fields

Partial PAF Records Full PAF Records
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

 

  • Organisation Name
  • Department Name
  • PO Box
  • Building Name
  • Sub Building Number
  • Building Number
  • Thoroughfare
  • Street
  • Double Dependent Locality
  • Dependent Locality
  • Post Town
  • Postcode
  • Postcode Type
  • Mailsort SSC

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