Data News from AFD

LATEST PAF DATA NEWS

Q.1/12 is now available!

PAF Data Q.1/12 (Quarter 1, 12) release shipped 4th January 2012.

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.1/12 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.1/12 data

For reference purposes, a small sample of new postcodes added in Q.1/12 release of AFD Postcode products is shown below. Test them in your product to see if they are in your data set.

TD9 1AD

For reference purposes, a sample of postcodes that had changed in the Q.1/12 release are shown below.

NN14 4GR -> NN14 4PP

SS16 6DF -> SS16 6XD

TA21 9BA -> TA21 9BF

ROYAL MAIL PAF Statistics for the month of Dec 2011

Number of Postcode Areas	e.g. 'AB', 'G'	124
Number of Postcode Districts	e.g. 'AB10'	2,986
Number of Postcode Sectors	e.g. 'AB10 1'	11,197
Number of Small User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AL'	1,607,592
Number of Large User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AD'	142,780
Total Number of Postcodes		1,750,372
Number of Actual Delivery Points (does not include a count of multi occupancies)	e.g. 'AB10 1AD 1A'	28,994,224
Thoroughfares		872,789
Double Dependent Localities		4,058
Dependent Localities		26,432
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 Dec 2011

NEW LOCALITY IN AREA	NEW SECTOR	POSTCODE	DOUBLE DEPENDAN LOCALITY	DEPENDENT LOCALITY	POST TOWN
YES		GL7 5	ARLINGTON	BIBURY	CIRENCESTER
YES	YES	MK45 6			BEDFORD
YES	YES	GL17 1			MITCHELDEAN
YES	YES	LL68 8		LLANFECHELL	AMLWCH