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Petition update, 19 October 2009

More details from petition creator

The PAF is a database which contains the address and postcode of every address in the UK. While it contains other data useful to the Royal Mail, the addresses and postcodes are used by every individual and business and will be for the foreseeable future.

The Royal Mail licenses the PAF to others for a fee. In the web industry, developers of e-commerce site investigate the use of the PAF as a way of reducing the risk of misdelivered packages and streamlining purchasing. Most sites do not use the PAF because the Royal Mail's licensing terms are both restrictive and expensive.

The Government should urgently review the ownership of the PAF, in the interests of stimulating innovation and growth, and ensure that it is licensed freely to all parties who require it. While this would result in a drop of revenues to this part of the Royal Mail, the reduction in costs of administering licensing should offset this and pave the way for a more open approach to maintenance of the database.

Current signatories

Mo McRoberts, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Fraser Speirs
• Stuart Harrison
• Glyn Moody
• Gavin Montague
• Andy Mabbett
• Paul Irvine
• Steve Abraham
• Dan Sumption
• Simon Maddox
• Kevin Prince
• Will Howells
• David Salgado
• Theo Grzegorczyk
• Daniel Houriez
• Martin Sadler
• Paul Bradshaw
• Ian Mansfielkd
• Luc Pestille
• Derek Light
• Jon Bounds
• James Adam
• Levent
• Jez Higgins
• Paul Anthony
• Matt Beedle
• Jack Pickard
• Andy Ewart
• Ken Davidson
• James Mead
• Chris O'Sullivan
• Justin Reid
• Christopher Osborne
• Simon Howes
• Giles Lane
• colin bruce
• Paul Broadbent
• Jonathan Raper
• Alice Froggatt
• Vincent Birlouez
• Julia Gilbert
• Richard Harvey
• John McKerrell
• Paul Mansfield
• Simon Wheatley
• Richard King
• Colm McMullan
• Steve Purkis
• Tim Stevens
• Will Jessop
• Dave Cross
• Peter Lewis
• Willem Basson
• Andrew Warwick
• Mat Wall
• Chaitanya Kuber
• Nik Silver
• Alexis Harakis
• Alex Young
• Isabella Day
• Richard Keen
• Leon Brocard
• Jeremy Coates
• Mark Steadman
• Paul Gillingwater
• John Leach
• Paul Battley
• Alex Young
• Graham Pengelly
• Adrian Howard
• Richard Livsey
• Brian Norman
• Adrian McEwen
• Julian Cheal
• Keith Underdown
• Paul Wilkinson
• Simon Thompson
• Kerry Buckley
• Adam Auden
• Duncan W Parry
• steve richardson
• Andrew Brough
• Carl Vincent
• Chris Fleming
• Alistair Kelman
• Chris Keene
• George Hazlewood
• steven feldman
• Tim Beadle
• Jason Roseweir
• Philip Norton
• Murray Steele
• Andrew Fleming
• Shaun McDonald
• Dean Owen
• James Andrews
• Cennydd Bowles
• Ian Waring
• Alice Taylor
• Michael James
• Juan Matthys Uys
• Paul Cleghorn
• Nick Richards
• Simon Hammond
• Ioannis Lionis
• Robert Rothenberg
• Dick King
• S King
• Jeff
• James
• Neil Gall
• G Jackson
• James Wallis
• Jeremy Morley
• Thomas Wood
• Tom Guilbert
• Rod Begbie
• Jonathan Shewell-Cooper
• Adam Cohen-Rose
• Daniel Williams
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• Glyn Wintle
• Doug Aitken
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• Christopher Corbettis
• Jennifer Bolton
• Rupert Redington
• Russ Anderson
• Hugh Hancock
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• Sam Dean
• Andrew Whitehead
• Fiona Romeo
• Kim Plowright
• DJ Adams
• Simon Scarfe
• Elise Plans
• Nicola Chaplin
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• Andrew White
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• Richard Boulton
• Tom Mortimer
• Robin Gower
• Ben Edwards
• Alice Egan
• Adam Wagstaff
• Richard Lewis Jones
• Roger Lancefield
• Andrew Dulson
• Andy Williamson
• James Goffin
• Tony Piper
• Mark Ng
• Simon Topple
• Martin Taylor
• David McAllister
• Philip Peter
• Duncan Cumming
• Kulvinder Chaggar
• Adrian Short
• Michael Lenahan
• Radomil Ricka
• Malcolm Young
• Paul Geraghty
• Richard B McMillan
• Rob Clarkson
• Sam Hastings
• mark danson
• Jo Toon
• Neil Aldridge
• Ken Corey
• JP Mortiboys
• Josephine Byrne
• George Bolgar
• Sean Kelly
• Andrew Miller
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• Stephen Roger Atkinson
• Geoff Bowen
• Andrew Thompson
• AMY JACKSON
• Scott Bradley
• Rafe Benli
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• Thomas Morgan
• Robin Waters
• Sara Hinds
• Guy Rowland
• Mark Goddard
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• Tony Fear
• Donny Hammell
• Val Purkis
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• Luke Spanton
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• Karen Startup
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• susan comer
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• Frederick Parkinson
• STEPHEN O'SHEA
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• Pete Hawkins
• Denis Payne
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• Cecile Gillard
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• Sheila McHale
• Catherine Boutwood
• Bruce Luxton
• Jacky Valentine
• Ian Moffat
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• Sally Gilbert
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• Guy Glover
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• William J Read