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The Postcode Address File (PAF) is a database that contains all known "delivery points" and postcodes in the United Kingdom.The PAF is a collection of over 29 million Royal Mail postal addresses and 1.8 million postcodes. [1]
The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) provides a postal service to HM Forces separate from that provided by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom, with BFPO addresses used for the delivery of mail in the UK and around the world. BFPO codes such as "BFPO 801" serve the same function as postal codes for civilian addresses, with the last line of the ...
This is a list of postcode areas, used by Royal Mail for the purposes of directing mail within the United Kingdom. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]
Until 1996, Royal Mail required counties to be included in addresses, except for 110 of the larger post towns. For these "special post towns", the former postal county is shown in brackets below. Since 1996, counties are not required for any address. Postcode district codes are also known as "outward codes".
Royal Mail (1999). Address Management Guide (6th ed.). "Royal Mail major recode historical information – 2000 to September 2011" (PDF). Royal Mail. 3 November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2017
The timetable announced by Royal Mail in July 2010 indicated that this was likely to happen between 2013 and 2016. [6] In 2013 Felicity MacFarlane stated the Royal Mail position: [28] As we have stressed for a number of years, Royal Mail's Postcode Address File does not contain county names as they are not required for postal purposes.
Royal Mail's Postcode Address File; A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF) This page was last edited on 6 August 2023, at 19:25 (UTC). Text ...
The National Address Gazetteer is a database designed to provide a definitive source of publicly owned spatial address data for Great Britain. [1] It is a culmination of Local Land and Property Gazetteers (collectively known as the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)) and other datasets: Address Layer 2 (AL2) and Royal Mail PAF data.