What is PAF and why is it vital to UK businesses?
PAF, is the UK’s definitive address database. It is included in Fetchify's address search and validation databases automatically and updated daily.
Our Address Data Promise
We only partner with the best data providers on the market to ensure you and your customers get the best experience. We select the leading data providers in each territory to deliver structured data which conforms to industry standards, thus ensuring you capture 100% accurate, formatted addresses.
So, you can be sure your customer data is not only clean but valid for use with major couriers and logistics for increased international deliverability.
Royal Mail®
Using Royal Mail's PAF® (Postcode Address File) provides us with the most up-to-date UK address database available. 1.8million postcodes, 30million+ addresses and all updated every single day.
Eircodes
Eircodes guarantee accurate address data for the Republic of Ireland. Using the ECAD and ECAF files ensures coverage of all geographic and postal addresses in Ireland plus additional data including alias address information and coordinates.
USPS
The United States Postal Service handles 48% of all the world's mail. Our Address Auto-Complete tool includes all US ZIP and ZIP+4 searching.
HERE
The world's No.1 Location Platform, HERE covers over 100 countries and over 400 million addresses.
Kadaster
Kadaster provides access to the widest range of housing-related information such as Statistics Netherlands, NL Agency, the NBWO and the Land Registry
New Zealand PAF
With approximately 1.8 million delivery points, The Postal Address File (PAF) is New Zealand's most complete and up-to-date database of postal addresses.
What counts as good quality address data?
Address data quality, quantity is ranked on a scoring system according to not just the number of addresses available, but also :
- The level of address details such as building names, apartment numbers or simply localities
- The types of address – residential, business, public buildings
This scoring system means you can be sure of the level of detail you will get for a given area or territory.
Email Address Data
Unlike our address-based services our email address validation attempts to connect directly to the recipient server to validate the address in real-time. This reduces the latency associated with fixed database queries and helps to manage the volume of email addresses opened and closed every single day.
Phone Number Data
Our phone number data is supplied by the carrier networks to provide us with the most up to date lists of active landline and mobile/cell phone numbers. Leading zeros in a number will be added if they are missing, +44 or 44 type country codes are recognised and despite a common feature in US typed numbers, hyphens are not permitted to ensure a numerical entry is received.
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