[Talk-GB] Places and postcodes -- nodes/areas?

[Lester Caine]

Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> >People tend to place great importance on living "within" a certain postcode,
>> >and thus we tend to think of them as defining areas, but they don't really
> Well, Royal Mail produce and supply, or at least used to, maps showing
> postcode districts, so perhaps someone should tell them that;-)
>
> There's more on the subject, at:
>
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_the_United_Kingdom

It is probably worth reminding people that the post codes are only designed to 
designate 'postal sorting routes' and as such, a small number do not even lie in 
the same county as the sorting office. The Post Office specifically excludes any 
changes that are not related to that function, and requests to 'change' a post 
code even when on opposite sides of the same road tend to be futile. The 
relation to an 'area' only covers the actual identified properties in the PAF. 
There is no 'definition' of the gaps between postcodes until perhaps a new 
building is added. This is one of the reasons that the National Land and 
Property Gazetteer uses it's on references numbers for streets and properties 
and postcodes - when recorded - are buried in the fine detail.

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