In message , at 10:57:07 on
Fri, 22 Jan 2016, Optimist remarked:
ps We do still have some counties in our addresses; places in
Peterborough for example, which is a County. Although in any event
Peterborough is a "Post Town".

The post town should be abolished, as we have the post code. It often misleads strangers who not
unreasonably follow signposts to it but can find themselves miles away from their intended
destination.

If the place isn't in the immediate vicinity of the Post Town, then it
should have another town/village too. So for example the Tesco near the
under construction Cambridge North Station is "Milton, Cambridge", not
merely "Cambridge". And the one next to Ely Station is simply "Ely".

(+ postcodes, obviously; Ely is CB7)
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Roland Perry