Post codes

[Mike Barnes]

[Nightjar]

[Mike Barnes]

"Nightjar

[whisky-dave]

I've had a bottle of Deep space Wine.

edible junk !!! it wasn't bad, actually far better than the local 5 quid a bottle stuff.

[Davey]

I still struggle to understand how IP25 makes any sense, when it is beyond a collection of NR areas, and way further from Ipswich than it is from Norwich (which is in the same county).

[Nightjar]

[Timothy Murphy]

Couldn't post codes just give an approximation to the latitude and longtitude of the house?

Then anyone with a smartphone could find it ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

there are free postcode databases around...

[Nightjar]

They exist to tell the Royal Mail which post bag the letter needs to end up in. All other applications are merely spin-offs from that.

[Bill Wright]

Well, it's only you, and the problem is that when I reply to you the reply fails and I get an error message citing 'line length'.

David Cameron lives at No10 Downing Street. Is he, compared to you, a pleb?

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Our post lady hands the letters over one at a time, if I happen to be working in the yard. She categorises them for me, thus: "Shite, s**te, s**te, bloomin' bill, s**te, s**te, another bloomin' bill, s**te, ohh err, one from the NHS, better open that one first eh? See ya later!"

Bill

[Andy Burns]

The problem was caused by fred (or google), not by Jabba.

[Adrian]

In the interests of balance, it's worth pointing out that he also lives at Chequers and a rather nice place in Oxfordshire with a name rather than a number.

[Adrian]

In town, mebbe. In this village, there's only a handful of houses have numbers - two here, two there. The highest house number is 6. EVERY other property is just "house name, village".

[fred]

Come on Timothy. An Post are trying to foist that idea in Ireland. Each user has to establish his own post code. Its never going to catch on. ISTR Post Codes had to be made compulsory in the U.K. before they were generally accepted

[Chris French]

We have both - am I pretentious pleb ? :-)

[Bob Henson]

I think it depends whether or not you refuse to give anyone your number, or to put it clearly visibly on your house. :-) My satnav is very bolshie and refuses to deal with anyone who lives at Mon Repos or Dunroamin, just in case they are inhabited by Hyacinth Bucket.

[Tim Streater]

Five properties in this postcode. Three just have names, the other two are 1 and 2, Bloggs Cottages. Just as well you're not coming here then, innit?

[Mike Barnes]

That's what the previous residents here did. I only found out after moving in that there was a number (well, three numbers actually, but that's a different story). Since then I've put the number in clear view and I always quote it in the address.

[Bob Henson]

Albeit my comments were a bit of light-hearted banter, I really do think anyone who has a number and doesn't use it is making a big mistake. It's so hard to find anywhere without a number that they leave themselves at a potential disadvantage.