Data News from AFD

LATEST PAF DATA NEWS

Q.1/10 is now available!

PAF Data Q.1/10 (Quarter 1, 10) release shipped 4th January 2010.

If you have purchased an update (and have been sent installation details), it can be downloaded from our website at http://www.afd.co.uk/update/ (you will be asked for your serial number and Q.1/10 password emailed to you).

If you are interested in purchasing a product update, then you can do so by using one of the following options:

Order your update via our on-line ordering service.

Order your update by requesting a callback from AFD!

Changes in the Q.1/10 data

For reference purposes, a small sample of new postcodes added in Q.1/10 release of AFD Postcode products is shown below. Test them in your product to see if they are in your data set.

KY13 3AA

For reference purposes, a sample of postcodes that had changed in the Q.1/10 release are shown below.

G2 5WP to G3 9DY

HG3 1WF to HG3 1WZ

ROYAL MAIL PAF Statistics for the month of Jan 2010

Number of Postcode Areas	e.g. 'AB', 'G'	124
Number of Postcode Districts	e.g. 'AB10'	2,983
Number of Postcode Sectors	e.g. 'AB10 1'	11,195
Number of Small User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AL'	1,596,598
Number of Large User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AD'	158,246
Total Number of Postcodes		1,754,844
Number of Actual Delivery Points (does not include a count of multi occupancies)	e.g. 'AB10 1AD 1A'	28,672,818
Thoroughfares		866,090
Double Dependent Localities		4,024
Dependent Localities		26,387
Post Towns		1,661

NEW SECTORS AND LOCALITIES

The table below shows the sectors and localities that have been applied to the main PAF system from Jan 2010

NEW LOCALITY IN AREA	NEW SECTOR	POSTCODE	DOUBLE DEPENDAN LOCALITY	DEPENDENT LOCALITY	POST TOWN
YES		PE7 3	EAGLE BUSINESS PARK	HAXLEY	PETERBOROUGH