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SFWhat is the minimal possible UK address?
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Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#112Back in the 80s/90s I recall my parents getting carried away with a fad of marking valuable personal objects with house number and postcode (in the same fashion as in this post) so they could be identified if stolen. Apparently it's still a thing – https://www.immobilise.com/ – but I haven't personally heard about anyone doing it in decades. In my building, mail for all flats gets delivered to the same postbox, so we…
The little tags you can put on your keychain for your grocery store rewards card often have a "postage guaranteed" line on them, if someone finds your keys I guess they can throw them in a mailbox and it'll get back to the grocery store and then they can forward them on to you.
I've never tried it personally.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#113I live in London too, but I really don't think this would work well for most things, Royal Mail, sure. But if I give a this to a private parcel company, theres no way they are going to figure out that, despite being the only #9 in my postcode, there are 3 streets that my postcode covers, google maps doesn't locate my house specicically if I put "9 ', it will absolutely be marked as could not locate.
I suspect there are databases that will geolocate such an address.
There are and they cost upwards of £20,000 a year for a license. There’s a reason why smaller delivery companies get the address wrong and that is probably part of the issue.
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#114I really like the uk post code system. Most website have auto complete. So address is type in 6 digits and select flat number from drop down.
I’ve even seen buildings where different floors have diff codes
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#115Time for a Classic (could not find it on YouTube)
UK House Numbers:
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1961-tonight-hous...
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#116I had a friend who was a farmer in a rural part of Britain and you could send him a letter by just writing First Name, Last Name, County and he would get the letter as his family had been farming that land for hundreds of years and the postal service could figure it out somehow. I also remember an art project where they put the address in the form of various different kinds of puzzles and had letters successfully del…
Many people don't realize that the mail/postal service existed for way longer than Zip Codes™ and such things, and addresses were much closer to "bob jones, last farm after the river, slopshire" than anything defined and regulated.
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#117Loved your article!
>> I wrote myself a letter, headed to the nearest postbox, and posted it. >> A couple of days later, I was very happy to find this in my postbox!
To make this more robust, i'd try this exercise 10-20 times. Different dates (to test for driver). Different sources (to test for source PO)
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect there are databases that will geolocate such an address.
There are and they cost upwards of £20,000 a year for a license. There’s a reason why smaller delivery companies get the address wrong and that is probably part of the issue.
The official one provided by Royal Mail is called the Postcode Address File (PAF) [0].
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#119In the US, someone I know who had a Post Office box liked writing simply `box-number zip-code` as their address. It worked. Eg, if you wrote on an envelope: 1034 21240 It would get there! You might want to add a "Box" before the "1034" to be safe -- and to disambiguate between a house number, as in OP? (I'm not sure just a house number would ever work in the USA?) But it looks cooler with just two numbers. Especially…
YMMV depending on the driver
Or post office worker anyway. There isn't actually a "driver" involved, the PO Box is in the post office identified with that zip code, the only driving involved is to get it to that building in the first place!
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#120In the US, someone I know who had a Post Office box liked writing simply `box-number zip-code` as their address. It worked. Eg, if you wrote on an envelope: 1034 21240 It would get there! You might want to add a "Box" before the "1034" to be safe -- and to disambiguate between a house number, as in OP? (I'm not sure just a house number would ever work in the USA?) But it looks cooler with just two numbers. Especially…
A bunch of US zip codes are for PO Boxes only, so this seems to stand a strong chance of working, at least in those places.