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In Ireland it's just XXX XXXX (each property gets assigned with a unique EirCode)
Although An Post don't use EirCodes, so I wonder if an EirCode alone is enough? Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/an-post-staff-fail-to-use...
Apsley House famously has (or had?) the address "Number 1, London".
https://londonist.com/2016/06/why-does-apsley-house-have-the...
It looks from Wikipedia that that's a popular name rather than official one.
The house was given the popular nickname of Number One, London, since it was the first house passed by visitors who travelled from the countryside after the toll gates at Knightsbridge.[3] It was originally part of a contiguous line of great houses on Piccadilly, demolished to widen Park Lane: its official address remains 149 Piccadilly, W1J 7NT.[4]
However, if you posted a letter it would probably get there if the Post Office were determined enough.
Olga was a famous doorkeeper at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Students used to send her postcards from their journeys. It became so popular that it was enough to write "Olga, Sweden" for her to get the letters [0] (source in swedish). [0]: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Boberg
I wonder if a sufficiently famous, public, and unique name could get delivered. Would a letter simply addressed “Biden” make it to the White House?
I'm sure it would take longer as it would have to go via the exception case; but if enough people then did it they would have to automate it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suppose it depends on the country you post from, but I'd expect "UK" to be more universally understood than "GB".
UK is also more correct because it includes Northern Ireland and the other smaller islands (which are not in Great Britain, the main island)
One issue also is that, even though the postcode pinpoints a small group of houses, it might happen to span two streets. It also gets complicated with flats and any number of other corner cases.
Addresses are complicated as anyone who has had to deal with them in code will testify.
I 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…
It is. The Interpretation Act 1978 section 7 is where this bit of law currently resides but the principle is older than that:
Where an Act authorises or requires any document to be served by post (whether the expression “serve” or the expression “give” or “send” or any other expression is used) then, unless the contrary intention appears, the service is deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the document and, unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.