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  • PAB Stimulates Reduced Delay in Adding New Addresses to PAF

    In 2017, the PAB sponsored a study of how delays faced by residents moving into new property in having their address appear on PAF could be reduced. Implementation of the recommendations in the study, which was carried out by Data Advance, have so far reduced the average delay by nearly a third. Royal Mail correctly […]

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  • AMU accredited by Investors In People (IIP)

    The AMU have advised they have been assessed at ‘Gold’ level by the Team at Investors In People (IIP) for the third time.   Congratulations go to the AMU for this achievement. The recognition is particularly significant as the assessment came against a backdrop of Systems Changes in the AMUs Doxford customer contact centre, an […]

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  • Philip Good Obituary

    It is with sadness that the PAF Advisory Board learnt of the death of Philip ‘Phil’ Good on 5th December 2017.  He was one of the first people to understand the importance of the postcode in identifying an address for the purposes of delivery of mail and parcels and developed a postcode recognition business in […]

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  • EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are a set of regulations developed by the European Commission, intended to strengthen data protection for individuals within the European Union. The regulations are applied from 25th May 2018. Appended are a set of links to materials relating to the GDPR that may be useful in assisting your understanding of […]

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  • Royal Mail and the PAB chairman respond to Open Data report

    Royal Mail responds to the Public Administration Select Committee report on Statistics and Open Data and points to further initiatives to help the spread of PAF usage. The PAB chairman identifies four priorities – raising awareness of innovations in PAF licensing, licence simplification, quality assurance on PAF data and examining the costs of PAF maintenance. […]

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  • News archive

    A collection of news archives from our previous website dating from 2014 – 2009.       24.01.2014 – Counties Consultation results RESULTS OF CONSULTATION ON THE COUNTY INFORMATION IN PAF Results available under paper PAF(14)3 Consulatation is launched PAB launches consultation on the inclusion of county information in PAF The inclusion of three types […]

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