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use of counties in UK addresses is unusual compared with other
territories and inconsistent. E.g. So many postal towns now longer
need to be qualified by a county.

Surely, counties are not needed at all on postal addresses ?
All I usually give is

Persun's Name
xxx StreetName
postcode



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Richard M Willis wrote:
wrote in message

use of counties in UK addresses is unusual compared with other
territories and inconsistent. E.g. So many postal towns now longer
need to be qualified by a county.

Surely, counties are not needed at all on postal addresses ?
All I usually give is

Persun's Name
xxx StreetName
postcode

Post Towns *are* needed, though, otherwise there may be a problem if the
postcode is incorrect. Sometimes it's better to have a little
redundancy.
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard M Willis wrote:
wrote in message

use of counties in UK addresses is unusual compared with other
territories and inconsistent. E.g. So many postal towns now longer
need to be qualified by a county.

Surely, counties are not needed at all on postal addresses ?
All I usually give is

Persun's Name
xxx StreetName
postcode


It is a while since I have seen a Royal Mail Manual covering the
subject. It used to state that Counties are required followed the Post
Town with exceptions. The list of exceptions was very long.

Document
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/c...ediaId=9200078
states that Counties are no longer required if the Postcode is present.

Adrian

In article . com writes:
Richard M Willis wrote:
Surely, counties are not needed at all on postal addresses ?
All I usually give is

Persun's Name
xxx StreetName
postcode

It is a while since I have seen a Royal Mail Manual covering the
subject. It used to state that Counties are required followed the Post
Town with exceptions. The list of exceptions was very long.

Ah, in the Netherlands it is much easier. Postal code plus house number is
sufficient to get the mail delivered. So when you look at my signature
it is overcomplete. 1025 JN 215 is enough to deliver without any further
indication, you do not even need to state my name.
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dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 01:26:04 GMT, "Dik T. Winter"
wrote:

In article . com writes:
Richard M Willis wrote:
Surely, counties are not needed at all on postal addresses ?
All I usually give is

Persun's Name
xxx StreetName
postcode

It is a while since I have seen a Royal Mail Manual covering the
subject. It used to state that Counties are required followed the Post
Town with exceptions. The list of exceptions was very long.

Ah, in the Netherlands it is much easier. Postal code plus house number is
sufficient to get the mail delivered. So when you look at my signature
it is overcomplete. 1025 JN 215 is enough to deliver without any further
indication, you do not even need to state my name.

In most cases postcode and house number will get a letter delivered in
the UK but one single simple error can send the letter somewhere very
different. The postcode is principally a device for Royal Mail's use
and is not readily translatable by the majority of people whereas an
address has much wider usage. In the absence any other public
authority defining addresses in a uniform manner it is the RM
definition which in practice has universal usage when premises need to
be located, but minimising the presented information increases the
risk of confusion of same- or similatly-names places. Although the
county is not regarded by RM as a required address detail it still
exists within the RM system, usually seen as a deciding detail where a
postcode is requested for an address in a place whose name is not
unique or is almost the same as another place elsewhere in the
country.
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