$100 to anyone who can get me this file

[BWDP]

The Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF)... :whistling

payment by paypal after file is in my possession and checked to be genuine.

PM me or reply to this thread pls

[Barbarossa]

We get sent it on CD on a monthy basis :happy:

By the way, it's not secret or anything :unsure:

[BWDP]

i sent you a PM. i really need this file but can't pay much more than $100 :dabs:

[Barbarossa]

You can buy it from the post office themselves for £110.

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?mediaId=56000706&catId=400085

Looking at what we get, it's encrypted so you'd need some software to make sense of it, it's probably not what you want...

[BWDP]

There is a minimum data supply cost of £600.

that link u gave me has £110 min license fee, then further "supply charges"...


are you sure i can get it for only £110?

[Barbarossa]

No :blushing:

I just read the small print. :pinch:

EDIT: Our company gets theirs from a company called QAS (http://www.qas.co.uk/index.htm?tid=1&tdet=qas&engine=adwords!10346&keyword=qas&match_type=).

I don't know much about pricing though. It depends what you want.

[BWDP]

is there any chance you could help me get your encrypted file as well as your decrypting program?

[Barbarossa]

£395 is the cheapest I can find.

http://www.list-logic.co.uk/paf_data.html

I'm thinking that what we have would be no good to you, because I'm guessing you want to do something like a large direct marketing campaign, which

1). I don't agree with in principle

and

2). What we use only lets us do individual postcode/address lookups, it doesn't give us access to the entire database at once. Therefore it'd be no good for you.

Also I don't want to get into trouble with my company or our suppliers, sorry! ;)

To be honest, when I first saw your thread I thought you were making a joke :dabs:

[100%]

barbz - ever heard of filesharing?

[BWDP]

no joke, and i only want it to help me dynamically link up different pages in a website to other relevant pages (eg postcodes to street names...etc)



offer of $100 still stands for anyone who can get me this file

[Something Else]

My brother works at the post office. :smilie4:

[BWDP]

okay... so can you help? o_0

[Barbarossa]

barbz - ever heard of filesharing?

No, but it sounds hawt :cool:

[Something Else]

okay... so can you help? o_0

No, but ewe sound hawt. :cool:

[Barbarossa]

How about something like this? Web-based postal address lookup software.

http://www.capscan.com/matchcode_webnet.aspx

[Chip Monk]

Why would someone resident in the UK, wanting the UK post codes be offering to pay for it in $US via paypal.

Sounds like some kind of scam to me.

[Something Else]

Rude Interruption:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1812/20080306181055yb3.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Alien5]

Why would someone resident in the UK, wanting the UK post codes be offering to pay for it in $US via paypal.

Sounds like some kind of scam to me. it might be that bloke al quieda :fear:

[thebazzla]

a little tip for you if you go to the royal mail home page you can get so many free postcodes a day.
just type in the street name

[Mr JP Fugley]

a little tip for you if you go to the royal mail home page you can get so many 15 free postcodes a day.
just type in the street name

Made useful.

[WarrenBuffet]

Put this in the bit torrent section and you'll have 10 pages adn a full pm box in 1 hour

[Mr JP Fugley]

He should know, he sells stuff there.

[thebazzla]

a little tip for you if you go to the royal mail home page you can get so many 15 free postcodes a day.
just type in the street name

Made useful.thank you for that i couldn't remember how many you got as i only work for them :)

[Mr JP Fugley]

Made useful.thank you for that i couldn't remember how many you got as i only work for them :)

What do you do.

[thebazzla]

i just sort and deliver the mail

[Mr JP Fugley]

i just sort and deliver the mail

Both :O

Are you in a wee rural Post Office and you do everything. :yup:

Do you have a black and white cat and a wee red van. :w00t:

[thebazzla]

i just sort and deliver the mail

Both :O

Are you in a wee rural Post Office and you do everything. :yup:

Do you have a black and white cat and a wee red van. :w00t:yes people have this strange idea that we just go into work and pick up the mail and deliver it. no i am in a town centre office with a high percentage of coffin dodgers for customers. and finally i did have a black and white cat but i run over it in the yard with my shiny red van. the end :)

[Mr JP Fugley]

So you do actually sort it, then go round the streets with your sack over your shoulder delivering the mail.

Cool, I feel we are somehow connected, what with me currently reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. True Story.

[thebazzla]

yes usually about 6 bags of mail a day mostly made up of junk mail and magazines and i just googled that book and the story looks like an interesting read .

[tesco]

Put this in the bit torrent section and you'll have 10 pages adn a full pm box in 1 hour
ya 10 pages of 'good luck' 'nice giveaway' and a pm box full of 'ftn for sct' (or whatever you kids are trading these days :snooty:).:rolleyes:

[Mr JP Fugley]

yes usually about 6 bags of mail a day mostly made up of junk mail and magazines and i just googled that book and the story looks like an interesting read .

It's not Pratchett's finest but well worth a read for all that. As ever he holds a rather squinty mirror up to society. Whilst at the same time being damned funny.