On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:24:25PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:
It has been stated here many times that the postcode system was devised
purely for Post Office convenience, however, HA5 contains two roads
called Pinner Road at opposite edges, and I can not see why the PO would
have viewed that as convenient when they only had to move one of the
boundaries by 100 yards to put the Pinner Road which straddles the
Northwood boundary entirely into Northwood where it belongs IMO.

The first part of the postcode is used to direct mail to a local sorting
office. Presumably it was thought appropriate to have the same sorting
office for both roads. The second part of the postcode directs mail to
an individual postie's round, so as long as the second part differs,
there's no problem.

And if the sender forgets to use a postcode, then I would presume that
they're in different post towns.

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