PAF - Postal Address File

The Postcode Address File (PAF) from the Royal Mail is the most up-to-date and complete address database in the UK, containing over 28 million addresses. 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 Postcodes.

The data is owned and meticulously maintained by the Royal Mail's army of postal workers who are continually feeding data into the process to make PAF the most accurate national gazeteer anywhere in the world.

Postcode Lookup techniques are now common place so that entire addresses can be captured quickly and accurately with only a few key strokes. The file is also invaluable to marketers wanting to ensure that their address data is postally correct prior to performing a mailshot in order to achieve maximum response rates and minimise returns - and also the mailsort savings that well addressed data can obtain.

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Data8 Services using PAF

PAF Cleansing - PAF is used within our PAF cleansing service. You can get a free data quality audit to find out how many of your records are postally correct by using our online data cleansing service Data8online.

Postcode Lookup - Postcode Lookup uses PAF to provide methods to obtain full, accurate addresses from a postcode or partial address details. We deliver the data via web services so that it can be integrated into your website or business process. A postcode lookup free trial is available.