Royal Mail PAF® address database

Full address details from the Royal Mail

Royal Mail PAF®

Comprehensive postcode address file for all the UK

30 million business and residential addresses
1.8 million postcodes
1.4 million business names
frequently updated

PAF® is available with different levels of detail and can be purchased nationally or by postcode area. The data is supplied as comma delimited text ready to import into your database system. Two versions of PAF® are available:

Full PAF® every address that can receive mail in the UK
Part PAF® a subset of Full PAF® showing every thoroughfare in the UK

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Full PAF®

The Royal Mail's Full PAF® is a data product that describes all the deliverable addressess in the UK. It includes organisation and department names where necessary as well as full building details.

Used for complete address verification and data checking Full PAF® is sold by postcode area eg 'YO' or 'GL' or as a complete national dataset.

Data fields supplied in Full PAF®

PAF Data
Organisation Name	Department Name
PO Box Number	Sub Building Name
Building Name	Building Number
Thoroughfare	Dependent Thoroughfare
Dependent Locality	Double Dependent Locality
Post Town	Postcode
Delivery Point Suffix	URN
Postcode Type (small or large user)	Small User Org Indicator
Traditional County	Former Postal County
Adminstrative County

Extract from Full PAF® showing the records for Postcode 'YO23 2BD'

Organisation Name		Beacon Dodsworth Ltd	Palladian Ltd	Mitchell & Urwin Brickwork Contractors Ltd	Npower	Huntington Ross		A G C The Print Consultants		Middlethorpe Interiors
Department Name
PO Box
Sub Building Name
Building Name	3 Middlethorpe Business Park	5 Middlethorpe Business Park	6 Middlethorpe Business Park	1-2 Middlethorpe Business Park	7 Middlethorpe Business Park	15 Middlethorpe Business Park	12 Middlethorpe Business Park	9 Middlethorpe Business Park	10 Middlethorpe Business Park	11 Middlethorpe Business Park
Building Number
Thoroughfare	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane	Sim Balk Lane
Dependent Thoroughfare
Dependent Locality	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe	Bishopthorpe
Double Dependent Locality
Post town	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK
Postcode	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD	YO23 2BD
Delivery point Suffix	1D	1F	1G	1H	1J	1L	1N	1P	1Q	1R
URN	50714786	50714788	50714789	50714784	52735699	54009405	54009406	54009407	54009408	54009434
Postcode Type	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Small user Organisation		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y		Y
Traditional County
Former Postal County
Administrative County	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK	YORK

Part PAF®

Part PAF® is a reduced dataset that describes all addressable streets in the UK.

The data product is used for address verification and postcode checks and reduces the administration overhead as the dataset is smaller.

Data fields supplied in Part PAF®

PAF Element
PO Box Number	Thoroughfare
Dependent Thoroughfare	Dependent Locality
Double Dependent Locality	Post Town
Postcode	Postcode Type (small or large user)
Delivery Point Count for postcode	Traditional County
Former Postal County	Adminstrative County

Extract from Part PAF® showing the record for Postcode 'YO23 2BD'

PO Box	Thoroughfare	Dependent Thoroughfare	Dependent Locality	Double Dependent Locality	Post town	Postcode	Postcode Type	Delivery Point Count	Traditional County	Former Postal County	Administrative County
	Sim Balk Lane		Bishopthorpe		YORK	YO23 2BD	S	13			YORK

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