You may be familiar with seeing barcodes printed on mail that you receive. A barcode is created by combining the Checksum Digit and the Delivery Point Suffix (DPS) from within PIF™ to a postcode with PAF®. Primarily this is used to improve the speed and accuracy with which the letter is sorted.
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Product information
What is PIF™ data and what does it include?
PIF™ contains information that is unique to a delivery point. When combined with the postcode within PAF® you can define a single live delivery point.
Delivery point details are provided either just as a building number or as a string containing the most significant 50 characters of the Delivery Point description.
What doesn’t PIF™ data include?
PIF™ does not contain full postal addresses. If you require full PAF® address and the DPS these can be found in the PAF Main File and PAF Compressed Standard Files.
File formats
Royal Mail provides PIF™ as raw data in one file format.
PIF data is available on CD or via Internet download; updates can be taken monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annually.
Sample Data
If you are interested in developing your own software solutions that incorporate address data then you can download a sample of PIF™. Simply complete the registration process, accept our terms and download your data. Alternatively, our First Steps CD contains samples of PIF™, PAF®, and our other raw datasets. Request your free copy of First Steps now.
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