What does the Royal Mail sell-off mean for postcodes data? (Guardian Unlimited)

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The government’s plans to sell off up to 30% of the Royal Mail to the private sector have attracted the opprobrium of scores of backbench MPs – but nobody seems to have asked what might happen in such a sell-off to the Postcode Address File (PAF), the list of all the postcodes for 27m addresses in the UK, used by a huge number of organisations for mailshots, geographic targeting, and even by …

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