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Address lists for software testing
Royal Mail offers a free service for testing Mailsort, Walksort and International Bulk Mail. If you wish to have
your software tested, you will be required to sort a list of addresses which you can download
from this page. Further details of the software testing process and the format of the test address
lists can be found in the Mailsort Software Testing section.
Before you can download a Mailsort or Walksort or Mailsort / International Bulk Mail or Walksort / International Bulk Mail Test Address List you must submit a
Test Data Contract.
Once your contract has been received, you will be sent a username and password by email.
You will be prompted for this username and password when you click on one of the download links below.
For the Mailsort software test you should use Mailsort Database 2007 Release 1,
which came into effect on 23 July 2007. A copy of the database is included with the test address data.
For the Walksort software test you should use Walksort Database 2007 Release 1 (1a),
which was issued on 8 May 2007 and came into effect on 23 July 2007.
An excerpt of this database suitable for the software test is included with the test address data.
For Mailsort Software Tests, please use the following links:
Download Mailsort Test Data - Comma Delimited Format
Download Mailsort Test Data - Fixed Field Width Format
For Walksort Software Tests, please use the following links:
Download Walksort Test Data - Comma Delimited Format
Download Walksort Test Data - Fixed Field Width Format
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