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	Postcode Address File - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Postcode Address File (PAF) is a data file available from the Royal Mail.
		However, it is important to note that the postal address is not always a geographically accurate description of where a property is located.
		This file is used to identify these elements and cross-reference with the official postal address.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postcode_Address_File (465 words)

	UK postcodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the London area postcodes are slightly different, being based on the old system of 163 London postal districts and predating by many years the introduction of postcodes in the 1960s:
		Postcodes were devised solely for the purposes of sorting and directing mail and rarely coincide with political boundaries.
		By including the map references of postcodes in the address database, the postcode can be used automatically to pinpoint a postcode area on a map.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_postcodes (2282 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Who will address the postcode mess?
		In the case of addresses, a crucial resource is the Royal Mail's database of 1.7m postcodes, the Postcode Address File.
		Postcodes, usually matched to around 15 addresses within a geographical area (the number depends on the density of housing), were introduced between 1959 and 1974 to make mail delivery more efficient.
		Royal Mail says that postcodes are freely available to all comers: its website www.royalmail.com allows individuals to look up a code, and find addresses from a postcode.
	society.guardian.co.uk /e-public/story/0,,1818793,00.html (1031 words)

	Postcode Finder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		B4U postcode finder and address finder service will ensure that your mail is correctly addressed and it is totally free to use.
		The Address Finder works in an opposite manner to the Postcode finder, you must enter the postcode into the Address Finder form the Postcode Finder database is then searched and matched with the address.
		Postcodes are alphanumeric strings of 5 to 7 characters length, split by a single space into an Outward and Inward code, each comprising two distinct parts.
	www.b4usearch.com /postcode-finder.html (193 words)

	Achiever Capscan Integration - CRM Integration into Capscan Address Software.
		Their addressing software can be used online to facilitate real-time data capture and in batch mode for bulk data cleansing.
		By comparing your records against the 27 million addresses in the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF) or other comprehensive data sets, Capscan addressing solutions ensures that your contact information is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.
		Addresses are used to check and verify records on both offline and online systems, helping to speed up payment.
	www.achiever.com /intCapscan.html (237 words)

	IV. Sampling and Survey Methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Since changes had occurred in the sizes of some of the selected sectors in the updated PAF, the applied sampling interval was taken as the new sector size divided by the required number of addresses (ie 33) adjusted by the ratio of the old sector size to the new sector size.
		A sample of 2,475 addresses in each country was drawn from the Postcode Address File, sufficient to yield approximately 1,500 respondent households after allowance for non-residential addresses and non-response.
		A random sample of addresses was selected by CSU and, as with wave 1 of the BHPS, all individuals resident at those addresses when the interviewer called were eligible for inclusion in the sample.
	www.iser.essex.ac.uk /ulsc/bhps/doc/vola/smfa.php (11815 words)

	Lindfield Postal Address Action Committee Postcode Sorting page
		If the customer had mistakenly written the postcode RG16 (etc) on an item of mail for a Haywards Heath address for example, the item would not be automatically sorted to Reading (RG) but referred to an operator who would have to decide how the item should be sorted.
		Postal addresses are needed and used by everyone for a whole range of purposes, and certainly not just for the delivery of mail.
		It should be at least incumbent on Royal Mail, in the remaining time that this body has control over the Postcode Address File, to accept instructions from the appropriate local authority in respect of the contents of postal addresses throughout the authority's area.
	website.lineone.net /~lpaac/Sorting.htm (2040 words)

	Featured Addressing, Postcode and ZipCode Products
		Address 2000 allows you to accurately capture addresses into your web site or desktop application by presenting input screens that are formatted correctly for over 200 countries.
		Address 2000 also helps insure that international mail reaches its destination by printing labels or envelopes in the required format for each country.
		To lookup an address, simply enter the postcode and you receive the street, locality, town, county, mailsort, grid references, and most STD codes.
	www.componentsource.com /edevx/features/xaddres/index.html (906 words)

	Hopewiser - WorldWide Address Management Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hopewiser was the first company to provide address verification software based around the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF) and since the early 1980s we have been at the forefront of the development of the industry.
		Postwiser 2004 for Windows is a simple-to-use rapid address retrieval system specifically designed for PC users in regional offices or small businesses.
		Once an address has been selected it can be saved to a file, captured into a document, database or spreadsheet, or pasted into the Windows clipboard.
	www.hopewiser.com /products/postwiser (625 words)

	ADDRESS ENHANCEMENT
		Quick Address is designed to ensure that the addresses entered in your database are fully postcoded and meet the standards of the Royal Mail’s PAF - Postal Address File.
		If the Postcode is not known, only one or two lines of the address are generally required - a 50% saving with the additional benefit of having the correct Postcode added at the time the address is entered.
		Either enter a Postcode - the complete street address is returned with the cursor positioned ready for the street number, or, enter one or two lines of the address separated by a comma.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/raymead/addresse.htm (602 words)

	Postcode Address File - Postcomm
		Under the conditions of its licence, Royal Mail is obliged to maintain the PAF file, make it available to any person who wishes to use it on terms that are reasonable, and to establish a Code of Practice that sets out the procedures for making changes to postal addresses on PAF.
		It would be very costly for any other organisation to replicate the PAF, and difficult to make any replacement system as well-known and familiar as the postcode.
		Our aim is to make sure that the PAF is maintained and made available to other organisations - including other licensed postal operators - wishing to use it, on terms that are reasonable and consistent with the relevant provisions in the Postal Services Act 2000 (section 116) and in Royal Mail's licence (condition 20).
	www.psc.gov.uk /royal-mail-standards-and-prices/postcode-address-file.html (321 words)

	Royal Mail PAF® - Postcode Address File data supply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Dataset including all the address information, but at a lower cost as the geographic data is not included.
		PostCoder Web SOAP offers a range of per click options for adding premise level address completion and other geographic information searching to your website and applications.
		PostCoder API Compact allows Rapid Addressing to be embedded within your applications and on your website.
	www.allies-computing.co.uk /download_data.html (773 words)

	Property for London Ltd
		Listmaker is a special version of Postcode Plus which makes it possible to select and export any (or all) of the organisations and addresses contained in the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF).
		Contains all 26 million + addresses on PAF ready for selection and export (subject to memory limitations).
		E1 to E3 All addresses in a locality or town eg.
	www.p4l.co.uk /listmaker.html (487 words)

	QAS Ltd - More capture products
		Matching your input against the 1.7 million UK postcodes held on the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF), QuickAddress Rapid ensures that the address captured is accurate, consistently formatted and correctly spelt.
		Accuracy: Updates to the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File are supplied quarterly, ensuring that the most up-to-date postcode and address details are being used.
		Address capture technology: Offers wildcard searching if a digit of the postcode is illegible or unknown, and returns a picklist of close matches.
	www.qas.com /uk/products/other/more-capture-products.asp (555 words)

	Postcode and Address Management Solutions
		Postcode Internet is a powerful engine, which interrogates the full Royal Mail Postcode Address File with lightning speed.
		Postcode Plus is designed for rapid address entry, address verification, postcoding, NHS Administration and mapping of existing data.
		Only minimal address information is necessary, thus reducing the time customers spend on the telephone and decreasing the potential for spelling mistakes and other inaccuracies.
	www.graticule.com /products/PostcodeSoftware.html (1123 words)

	Zipcode & Postcode Controls, Address Components - for .Net ASP.Net Java ActiveX Delphi C/C++ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They perform tasks such as address formating, verification and postcoding, as well as providing user interface elements such as country pick lists.
		Perform address lookup from zipcodes and postcodes, and derive zipcodes and postcodes from address data.
		Address formats for over 200 countries are supported.
	www.devdirect.com /ALL/Addressing_PCAT_1979.aspx (892 words)

	Postcode address File (PAF) Royal Mail - the database manager
		The Postcode Address File, or PAF, is the most up-to-date database in the UK containing over 27 million addresses.
		PAF helps create and maintaining mailing-lists and databases, helping you to reduce the number of returned or undelivered items.
		With PAF you can sort your mail with full and correct Postcodes, which could help reduce your postage costs.
	www.thedatabasemanager.co.uk /database/cleaning/royalmailpostcodeaddressfile.htm (167 words)

	Global Mapping Postcode Data
		Postcode boundary data can be an essential tool for business in the UK today.
		For output by postcode, one further attribute is available which gives the number of delivery points at the postcode (i.e.
		The postcode map supplied as a GIF file is suitable for plotting and for use in a GIS system.
	www.globalmapping.uk.com /postcode_data.html (1437 words)

	LHCS - Sampling and Weighting - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The PAF is divided into two parts on the basis of the delivery point count: the Large User File for delivery points with an average of 25 or more items of mail delivered per day, and the Small User File for the remainder.
		For a LHCS only the Small User File would be required, although this would still contain a number of commercial and industrial properties which would have to be excluded during the sampling process.
		All addresses with an MOI greater than 1 should be included in the sampling frame for the same number of times that is indicated by the MOI.
	www.shcs.gov.uk /lhcs/part2_2.htm (495 words)

	PAF - Postal Address File
		There are 26.5 million addresses held on the PostCode Address File (PAF); the source of UK postcodes, and this file is constantly changing.
		If you do not regularly cleanse your data against PAF, you are probably spending more than you need on mailings.
		Our FREE Data Report (to assess the health of your data) will outline the number of your contact addresses that are PAF standard and which can be corrected, alongside number of duplications, telephone number matches, gone-aways, movers, deceased, TPS, MPS, FPS and much more.
	www.winpure.com /paf.html (142 words)

	NHAIS Manuals: Registration Reference Manual - Version 2.19 - May 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To ensure that patient addresses are accurate and conform to an agreed format, addresses may be matched against the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF).
		Once matched, patient addresses may be Linked to the PAF address to enable future Royal Mail updates to be implemented with the minimum of fuss.
		This is where an exact match using the patient’s address code cannot be found, but match(es) can be found with other localities within the same town (no address code relationships have been set up).
	www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk /nhais/downloads/regref/7-15N.HTM (898 words)

	ID: 17351 AFD Postcode Plus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Postcode Plus is ideal for intensive address list management or sorting out poor data, with organisations, building names and numbers it can quickly provide a missing or faulty postcode and the delivery point suffix can be used to generate Royal Mail barcodes.
		Postcode Plus will work with virtually all Windows applications, and is simple to install and use with lots of free examples of how to link it with your own databases.
		Postcode Plus Dynamic Link Library (DLL) provides a powerful and simple way for programmers to integrate the power of AFD Postcode Plus directly into their database or application running under Windows 3.x, 95 or NT.
	codecentral.borland.com /Item.aspx?id=17351 (395 words)

	"Postcode PA version 2.1" for FileMaker Pro 5, 6, 7 & 8 - FileMaker
		Postcode PA is a FileMaker database of the UK's 28 million addresses / 1.78 million postcodes (with optional geographic features).
		Postcode PA is available in four different versions: Basic, Standard, Plus and Premium.
		Postcode PA is available now for FileMaker 5,6,7 and 8 on Windows and OSX.
	www.filemaker.com /company/newsroom/releases/130356.html (737 words)

	McCarthy O'Connor - Knowledge Based Data Solutions
		As the file now covers over 90% of UK households, this data source can also be used to verify name and address combinations.
		The roll, containing full name and address data for all registered voters over the age of 18 is delivered at the same low-level price points as our other offerings.
		The Gone Away Suppression file is a key source of information regarding home movers in the UK and consists of over 12 million records updates every quarter.
	www.mccarthyoconnor.com /products_launderette.ASP (1136 words)

	AFD Postcode
		Postcode software links into Ultegra Customer and Supplier databases and produces full address details when postcodes are entered.
		Postcode Plus uses the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File and Postzone File to deliver comprehensive address lookup at lightning speed.
		Uses include rapid address entry, address verification, postcoding, NHS Administration, mapping of existing data.
	home.btconnect.com /OasisSystems/afd.htm (204 words)

	MatchCode Address Improvement Software from Technologies4Targeting
		By comparing your records with 27 million addresses in the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF), Matchcode ensures that the information is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.
		By comparing your records with the 26 million addresses stored in Royal Mail’s own Postcode Address File (PAF), Matchcode ensures that the information is as up to date and accurate as it possibly can be.
		Postcodes, street names and house number change occasionally and keeping up with these can be a nightmare.
	www.tech4t.com /pages/MatchC.html (1437 words)

	QAS Ltd - Business name and address cleaning
		Each address is verified against the 2.79 million UK business names and addresses in the Experian National Business Database (NBD) and the 27 million UK addresses in the Postcode Address File supplied by the Royal Mail simultaneously
		The address format is standardised, any spelling errors are corrected and missing address elements are added.
		Accuracy: Updates to both the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File and Experian’s NBD file are supplied quarterly ensuring the most up-to-date data is being used.
	www.qas.com /uk/products/business/cleaning.asp (406 words)

	Background Briefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The postcode address file is the central database, owned and managed by Royal Mail that holds all the postcodes and postal addresses — approximately 27.5 million of them — in the UK.
		The final part of the postcode is always 2 letters, identifying the unit.
		There is no change in Royal Mail’s overall ownership of PAF but Royal Mail should create a separate, clearly ringfenced business unit exclusively responsible for managing the maintenance, development and distribution of PAF.
	www.postwatch.co.uk /custinfo/CustInfo.asp?id=7 (661 words)

	Zapcode for Goldmine, Maximiser and ACT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Enter an UK postcode and Zapcode for GoldMine returns the address to street level from the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF).
		With large user postcodes, Zapcode for GoldMine will return a complete address including the organisation name.
		It can support or be linked to other applications including GIS - to allow mapping and logistics rationalisation as well as other lifestyle or boundary data sets to support and rationalise canvassing or other marketing activities throughout the UK and Europe.
	www.capitalsolutions.co.uk /Zapcode/ZapcodePage.html (271 words)

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