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Q.2/08 is now available!

PAF Data Q.2/08 (Quarter 2, 2008) release shipped 7th April 2008.

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.2/08 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 using our FREE Phone Me service.

Changes in the Q.2/08 data

For reference purposes, a small sample of new postcodes added in Q.2/08 release of AFD Postcode products is shown below. Test them in your product to see if they are in your data set.

BD5 5AA
KY2 9AA

RM13 0AB

For reference purposes, a sample of postcodes that have changed in Q.2/08 release are shown below.

CM1 9HQ to CM3 3WP
E6 7AA to E6 9DY

KY1 3AR to KY1 3AF

Recent Changes

Rutland Again Recognised as a County!

Residents in the LE16 8 and LE15 6 to 9 postcode sectors may now see Rutland once again used as a county name on their letters.

This is because Royal Mail has now recognised Rutland as a postal county and is including this in PAF products.

Although the use of county names in postal addresses is optional (the key information is the Post Town and Postcode) many people like to include a county name in their address and Royal Mail is happy for this to happen.

Royal Mail has now recognised that classifying the areas of Oakham and Uppingham as "Leicestershire" instead of Rutland did not reflect reality and was in fact an anomaly created in the 1970s. As such these areas are being changed back to what was in use prior to 1974, namely Rutland.

This change applies to addresses covered within the LE16 8 and LE15 6 through to 9 postcode sectors, covering more than 13,000 delivery points in the Oakham and Uppingham area.

This change is included in AFD Postcode Products from Q.1/08 onwards.

ROYAL MAIL PAF Statistics for the month of March 2008'

Number of Postcode Areas	e.g. 'AB', 'G'	124
Number of Postcode Districts	e.g. 'AB10'	2,978
Number of Postcode Sectors	e.g. 'AB10 1'	10,673
Number of Small User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AL'	1,584,504
Number of Large User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AD'	185,115
Total Number of Postcodes		1,769,619
Number of Actual Delivery Points (does not include a count of multi occupancies)	e.g. 'AB10 1AD 1A'	28,348,665
Thoroughfares		91
Double Dependent Localities		5,813
Dependent Localities		4,010
Post Towns		26,367

NEW SECTORS AND LOCALITIES

The table below shows the sectors and localities that have been applied to the main PAF system from March 2008

NEW LOCALITY IN AREA	NEW SECTOR	POSTCODE	DDL	DEPENDENT LOCALITY	POST TOWN
YES		LE67 1	BARDON BUSINESS PARK	BARDON HILL	COALVILLE
YES		LS23 7		THORP ARCH ESTATE	WETHERBY
YES		WA16 8		KNUTSFORD BUSINESS PARK	KNUTSFORD
CHANGE		G52 4		HILLINGTON PARK	GLASGOW
YES		CF82 7	PENALLTA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE	PENALLTA	HENGOED
YES		SY4 4		ATCHAM	SHREWSBURY
YES		B60 3		BROMSGROVE TECHNOLOGY PARK	BROMSGROVE
YES		BS11 0		KINGSWESTON	BRISTOL
CHANGE		DL5 6		AYCLIFFE BUSINESS PARK	NEWTON AYCLIFFE
YES		CT12 5		MANSTON PARK	RAMSGATE

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