Royal Mail should make its paid-for postcode address file (PAF) listing the locations of 29m residences available for free, says the Open Data User Group, whose chair was appointed by Cabinet Office ...

Postcode Address File (PAF) should have been kept as open data for government, says committee MPs and open data advocates have attacked the government’s selloff of postcode data in the privatisation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In its 10th anniversary year, the Strategic Mailing Partnership has joined the Postcode Address File (PAF) Advisory Board. The move coincides not only with the SMP’s anniversary but with the 60th ...

A national database containing the postcodes of everyone in Britain is to be privatised along with Royal Mail, despite direct "very forceful" protests to David Cameron from Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the ...

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 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 ...

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