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.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)