Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 44, No. 2 (1995), pp. 173-194 (22 pages) General population surveys in Britain tend to use either the electoral registers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Government has been slammed for selling a valuable database of every British postcode and address in last year's flotation of the Royal Mail. Ministers were strongly criticised for including the ...

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 ...

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 organisation that was given £10m government funding to increase the use of open data across the public sector has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold ...

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 ...