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2 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2014

PAF! MPs go postal over postal location data sell-off by Coalition.gov

geographer52
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Re: Ownership matters

original postcode boundaries areas(SW), districts(SW19) and Sectors(SW19 9) were matched to admin boundaries but these have changed, however postcode boundaries can not be changed to match because of the impact that this has on users particularly businesses who need continuity of Address across there stationary and advertising.

Unfortunately there is often an urban myth that postcode and admin boundaries match and when they don't a mistake has been made. In your Case the council is wrong and the Royal Mail is right but good luck in convincing them.

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Re: PAF 18 years out-of-date

The Royal mail no longer updates "postal" counties, these were the pre 1975 Administration boundaries however with significant changes in Admin areas over the last 40 years it is no longer viable to provide a valid link between post towns and counties and these elements were not needed in a mechanised sorting system and were retained only to aid residual manual sorting.

IF the PAF was a free open asset it would be easy for user groups to create there own versions of geography based on the positionsof each address.

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