[Talk-GB] Codepoint duplicates

[Andy Mabbett]

On 21 March 2011 12:05, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> A cautionary tale about inferring too much from postcodes - the
> positions given are the position of where the mail should be delivered
> to, and sometimes doesn't correspond to where you would expect given
> the name and the rest of address.
>
> But in reality society uses postcodes for a lot, lot more than
> delivering mail, and generally people don't know about the edge-cases.

I've seen several instances lately, of websites or brochures where a
company gives an address with two postcodes, one labelled "post", the
other "satnav".

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk