Data News from AFD

LATEST PAF DATA NEWS

Q.3/10 is now available!

PAF Data Q.3/10 (Quarter 3, 10) release shipped 12th July 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.3/10 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.3/10 data

For reference purposes, a small sample of new postcodes added in Q.3/10 release of AFD Postcode products is shown below. Test them in your product to see if they are in your data set.

AB21 1AB
IV31 9AA	PA80 5QB

For reference purposes, a sample of postcodes that had changed in the Q.3/10 release are shown below.

CT9 4WE to CT9 5GL

PA34 5QB to PA80 5QB

TW12 9QL to TW12 9AL

ROYAL MAIL PAF Statistics for the month of July 2010

Number of Postcode Areas	e.g. 'AB', 'G'	124
Number of Postcode Districts	e.g. 'AB10'	2,985
Number of Postcode Sectors	e.g. 'AB10 1'	11,204
Number of Small User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AL'	1,598,359
Number of Large User Postcodes	e.g. 'AB10 1AD'	156,345
Total Number of Postcodes		1,754,704
Number of Actual Delivery Points (does not include a count of multi occupancies)	e.g. 'AB10 1AD 1A'	28,729,992
Thoroughfares		867,359
Double Dependent Localities		4,039
Dependent Localities		26,399
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 July 2010

NEW LOCALITY IN AREA	NEW SECTOR	POSTCODE	DOUBLE DEPENDAN LOCALITY	DEPENDENT LOCALITY	POST TOWN
YES		EH41 4		LUGGATE	HADDINGTON
YES		LN6 9	BECKHEAD PARK	NORTH HYKEHAM	LINCOLN
YES		WA6 7		BRADLEY	FRODSHAM
YES		CM17 9		NEWHALL	HARLOW
YES		MK14 5		REDHOUSE PARK	MILTON KEYNES