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- Nairn5
I've probably already said this, but I'm always bemused by English addresses and how particular our provincial kin are with them.
I sent a package out earlier to a client and checked with him his address, defaulting to the Royal Mail one on a package he sent me - it has four lines, but he insisted on a full six line version.
I checked his address on Google maps prior and he lives in a literal hamlet in the middle of nowhere.
There's no way his postman is going to require the extra lines, because there's literally eight houses in his entire postcode.
I, living in London, need basically two lines: my street with building number, and my postcode. That's it. I'm surrounded by literally tens of thousands of other addresses and yet mail always comes through.
But no, I absolutely must have 'the Haverings' or whatever and Lower Bumpkiss in there to, otherwise it's going to be delivered to a fucking sheep, or somesuch, in his mind.
- haha, some people love all that. I can kind of understand if you live in a genuinely interesting pad and the name is part of village history or whateverFax_Benson
- but people who self-title their ugly new-buildFax_Benson
- there's a few rural areas here (particularly around the border) where postcode is useless, one code used for 10 miles of road.kingsteven
- there were no postcodes in the south outside Dublin until 10 years ago and the idea An Post could deliver to any colloquial address became a bit of a meme.kingsteven
- so there was always a bit of resistance to the postcodes (im not sure if political or farmer brain), An Post introduced post codes in the 2010s, which iskingsteven
- per property codes. and then several years of folks in co. fermanagh and the like realising they were physically incompatible with the digital worldkingsteven
- lol, lost track of my point there... royal mail postcodes are for sorting, not delivery. so they're often next to useless in rural areaskingsteven
- but yeah, there must be some tradition or pride. several times i've googled a colloquial address only to find its the only property with that post code.kingsteven
- just do what he askedrobthelad
- Ah, so that's why i checked in with him and then made a light hearted observation here. Thanks, rob. Always with your finger on the pulse.Nairn
- I can guarantee postcode or not, since I’m Oxfordshire I either write a small poem for address or my Amazon boxes go to a sheep.maikel
- For context, my road name now is ‘high st’ - so each crap hamlet has one, including the one where I livemaikel
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