Your next steps

The changes will affect all customers with a renewal date of 1st March 2010 onwards. Your Customer Account Manager will be contacting you prior to your first renewal after this date to explain the Royal Mail PAF licence changes in more detail and ensure you are compliant with the new licence terms. In order to ensure you are getting the most cost-effective use of the PAF data for your usage, please help us by establishing the following information prior to your next renewal.

• Number of users with the ability to access PAF data within your application(s)
• The number and names of the servers this data is stored on
• Approximate number of address look-ups you perform per annum
• Details of any other legal entities that have access to your systems

Please submit this information via our Licence Review Form to help your Customer Account Manager establish the best option for your organisation prior to contacting you.

• Use PAF to improve your data accuracy, visit our address software page to find out how.
• PAF data is used with online address verfication software.

What the Royal Mail says

Visit the Royal Mail PAF licensing web pages for more information on the changes they will be implementing.

Your Customer Management Team

If you would like to speak to us regarding the new Royal Mail PAF licence, please contact our Customer Management team

• Tel: 0207 819 5445
• Email: customer-management@qas.com

If you are a Partner of ours and would like more information on how your end users will be contacted, contact our Partner Team

• Tel: 0207 819 5245
• Email: partners@qas.com

Useful links relating to the Royal Mail PAF licence changes

• Royal Mail PAF defined
• Improve your address data accuracy with use of PAF in QAS Pro