Postcodes
Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In message , David
Cantrell wrote:
The first part of the postcode is used to direct mail to a local
sorting office.
That was never the case, though I think that originally all
destinations with the same outward code (the first part) went to the
same office. But many outward codes might go to the same place.
Nowadays there's no need for that simplification and it is no longer
applied - an outward code can be split between sorting offices if
operationally convenient.
The second part of the postcode directs mail to
an individual postie's round,
The inward code (the second part) directs to a specific street or part
of a street. There are never more than 80 individual "delivery points"
(e.g. houses) in a given code. One round will contain many codes
(which might not all be in the same outward code); the idea is that
rounds can be reorganized without having to recode anyone.
Welcome back - we miss you !
Jim Hawkins
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