Royal Mail Post Office PAF Data

Maintained by the Royal Mail, the Postcode Address File (PAF) is the most up-to-date and complete address database in the UK, containing over 28 million addresses and over 1.7 million Postcodes. PAF is an invaluable tool for creating and maintaining mailing lists and databases, as well as reducing the number of returned or undelivered items.

PAF is the only complete source of all known UK addresses & Postcodes

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The following purchase options are for a single user single PC licence. Group Wide, Internet or Web usage requires a system licence price structure.

Direct From Royal Mail

InfoLogic are authorised Royal Mail resellers of PAF and Postzon (Postcodes with grid references) ensuring that the PAF data you receive is the latest, most up-to-date release available.

PAF Applications

PAF data is essential to ensure that addresses are clean and accurate for mailing purposes. 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 25 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.