Re: Short address

Ronald Raygun wrote:
Mark Goodge wrote:

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:24:01 +0100, Tiddy Ogg put finger to keyboard
and typed:
all you need here is your house number and postcode.
That's not always true, because sometimes a postcode can cover more
than one street. So the house number isn't necesarily unique within a
postcode - you do need the street name as well in order to be certain.

I take exception to the "So".

Although a postcode might cover more than one street, this does not
necessarily imply that a house-number/postcode pair might fail to
identify a house uniquely.

For instance, a particular postcode might cover 20 houses which lie in
3 different streets. I put it to you that the boffins who allocated
the postcodes will have ensured that no two of these 20 houses share
the same house number.


Suppose that next to each other are 1 Old Cottage, 2 Old Cottage, 1 New Cottage, 2 New Cottage all in the same road and post code. Perhaps an exception to the OPs original point - but I have been there. It upsets the computer systems that use post codes to get address details. Anything that required a credit check - say a moblie phone contract took longer.

There was also the issue of companies that would not enter the data properly. I used to live at Number 1 Long Road. (Really number 1, first house in the road) about a mile away and on the other side were 1 and 2 Some Cottage. I often got mail for 1 Some cottage, usually because the local sorting office didn't read the address properly, but sometimes because some company had not done the data entry work carefully enough. On one occasion the local postie was quite put out because I would not sign for a recorded delivery letter that was not addressed to me. On other occasions I would put correctly addressed - but wrongly delivered mail back in the nearest postbox - only to get it back again 2 hours later! This was 6 years ago and I don't think we have such a fast service now.
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