Royal Mail Access Selection Files 2013 Release 83 - For use on or after 1st December 2025
Comma Delimited ASCII

Changes applied in this release:

There are 3 new postcode sectors:
BT23, 	2, 	30440, 	B
NP90, 	1, 	39071, 	A
SN80, 	1, 	39843, 	A


MECHAZ.DAT - Please note this file is no longer available, please use SORTAZ.DAT.

MECHB.DAT - Please note this file is no longer available, please use SORTB.DAT.

SORTAZ.DAT
Postcode / Access 70 Selection Code / Zonal look-up table

SORTB.DAT
Line listing text & Geographic sequencing details for Access 70

SORTC.DAT
Post Town code look-up table for non-Postcoded addresses

SORTD.DAT
Geographic area definitions


Commas separate the fields within a record. All fields are treated as character strings and so are enclosed by double quotation marks. Trailing spaces have been removed from fields. Records are terminated by Carriage Return (ASCII: 13) and Line Feed (ASCII: 10) characters. 

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