The Postcode Address File contains all known UK delivery addresses The inclusion of a valuable database of postcodes and addresses in the Royal Mail flotation has been criticised by an influential ...

A national postcode database administered by the Royal Mail will be privatised along with the postal service itself, despite the protestations of web pioneer Sir Tim Berners Lee. The government is ...

The government is planning to give anyone free access to postcode data. The move will be made as part of its commitment to make more use of technology and the web to transform official services.

The Government has been slammed for selling a valuable database of every British postcode and address in last year's flotation of the Royal Mail. Ministers were strongly criticised for including the ...

Should postcodes and their match to a particular longitude and latitude – even if that's approximate – be free? Royal Mail, which owns the copyright to the Postcode Address File (PAF), would point out ...

While the UK has embraced open data over the past couple of weeks, don’t bank on postcodes being free for app developers to use any time soon. After first London and then the UK government freed up a ...

We may be doing the founders of ErnestMarples.com a disservice, rather than a favor, in drawing attention to their site. Why? Because in the quaint world of Ye Olde Englande, Her Majesty’s Royal Mail ...

Ministers have been criticised for selling a database containing 29 million postal addresses Credit: Andrew Milligan/PA Archive Ministers have been strongly criticised for including a valuable ...