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Thank you! – yes, it's a private company, fully owned by the Government. I think I sort-of knew that, but it hadn't properly registered; I may indeed have been confusing it with Ro…

Yup. The Post Office, the railways, the water system , for heavens' sake! The tories, as a matter of religious faith, see privatised => efficient, whilst being unclear on the diffe…

Probably, but not necessarily. The article points out that the PAF is kept up to date by virtue of thousands of postmen and postwomen physically visiting the rows in the database o…

I remember asking a USGS person about this. They remarked that the other difference was that, compared with the OS, the USGS data was a bit rubbish (I may be paraphrasing). The USG…