[talk-au] post code boundaries

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 09:05:55 BST 2009


2009/9/18 Ian Wills <swanilli at gmail.com>:

> Tell me about it! Having worked for the post office in my youth, I can tell
> you that Postcode boundaries are often idiosyncratic. The boundary
> represents an easy way for the postie to walk, not a rational suburb
> boundary. In my own case, when I moved into my house 15 years ago it was in
> one suburb (sensible) but the council redefined the boundaries to match the
> Postcode causing much confusion, including with the council which sent rate
> notices with the old property address to the new postcode address.

I once lived in a house where the suburb boundary ran down the middle
of the road, from memory the mail was one suburb, yet pizza companies
and I think phone companies classified the place in the adjacent
suburb and fun was had by all.




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