On 6 Feb 2013, at 12:36, Nick Leaton <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's also the fact that the PAF is genuinely an expensive dataset to 
> maintain
> 
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> 
> I don't understand this bit. Why is it expensive to maintain? Create - yes. 
> Maintain? It's not that the postcodes are moving around is it. Perhaps I'm 
> missing something.

postcodes churn at a few % a year. new developments, businesses getting 
specific codes, postcode areas getting split.

The full PAF with addresses even more so.

on the other hand, the Post Office maintains PAF (badly) anyway.

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