What is the minimal possible UK address?

#1

Post by noughts » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:27 PM UTC

What is the minimal possible UK address?
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Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#2

Post by bombcar » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:36 PM UTC

I think he implied it but there are postal codes that refer to a single Mail Drop location.

For example, sometimes your tax return will have its own zip code in the USA.

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#3

Post by bloak » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:37 PM UTC

He should have written

  20
  SE1 6AD
  GB

and posted it in a different country.

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#4

Post by uberman » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:37 PM UTC

semi related - Address as a hand drawn maps:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-31/with-no-a...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/postman-manages-del...

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#5

Post by vladharbuz » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:40 PM UTC

bloak wrote: post #3

He should have written 20 SE1 6AD GB and posted it in a different country.

Already on it! :)

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#6

Post by BasedInfra » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

You can put just ‘HMRC’ (UK tax department) on a letter (with paid postage) and it will get to them.

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#7

Post by dmurray » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

vladharbuz wrote: post #5

bloak wrote: post #3

He should have written 20 SE1 6AD GB and posted it in a different country.

Already on it! :)

I suppose it depends on the country you post from, but I'd expect "UK" to be more universally understood than "GB".

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#8

Post by pshirshov » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

In Ireland it's just XXX XXXX (each property gets assigned with a unique EirCode)

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#9

Post by jakewins » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

Clearing out some old stuff from my grandparents, grandpa had at some point received a letter, from Stockholm, to their summer house in the woods addressed

    Thorvald
    The forest by

Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?

#10

Post by brnt » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

In the Netherlands you can do something similar. Postal code + house number is unique for a box (there can be no multiple boxes at a single house number), and all other info is optional.

So, a full address could be: 1540 AB 1.