PAF – Initial Postcomm response

A month ago I wrote to Ken Clarke and John Thurso asking them to add their support to Tom Watson's correspondence with the Royal Mail over the Postcode Address File and providing access at a reasonable cost.  Ken Clarke passed me on to Jonathan Djanogly, Shadow Spokesperson on the Post Read more…

Royal Mail and the Postcode Address File – epetition response

Number Ten Downing Street wrote a response to the petition “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to release the address and postal code data held within the Royal Mail’s PAF to the public.” In short they are saying, "not our problem, talk to Postcomm".  Some feel this is a Read more…

Royal Mail stifling innovation

The Royal Mail is stifling innovation and increasing costs for this country through charging for the Postcode Address File (PAF) at monopoly prices.  Local Authorities who provide the Royal Mail with some of the raw data for the PAF in the form of details of new streets are amongst the Read more…