If you expect the post office to manually guess the normalized address from the incomplete form, just a unique narrow area name and your name alone should suffice.
That is, if you have a name unique enough in that area.
What is the minimal possible UK address?
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Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#32Minimal postal address is:
Building Number/Name Postcode
Postcode is the name of the road or street if its not too long, but some long roads or high density area's may have two or more postcodes for a road or street as do buildings for special entities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdo...
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#33I once got USPS mail addressed to:
My name My town (slightly misspelled), My State
no zip code, no mail box number. The beauty of being in a small town where the postmaster knows who you are.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#34In Ireland it's just XXX XXXX (each property gets assigned with a unique EirCode)
And in Dublin, the first three exactly match the city area (e.g. D01 for Dublin 1) -- though outside the city the first three become less obvious.
Just the same, it's incredibly annoying that ecommerce sites still generally require full addresses rather than just using the An Post Eircode lookup thing to map an entered Eircode to an address.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
UK is also more correct because it includes Northern Ireland and the other smaller islands (which are not in Great Britain, the main island)
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#36https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-35174646
"ENGLAND" seems sufficient!
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#37You can put just ‘HMRC’ (UK tax department) on a letter (with paid postage) and it will get to them.
...and, if you write to a member of parliament at the Houses of Parliament, you don't have to use a stamp.
So presumably...
HP
...with no stamp on the envelope could theoretically work.
Now, which MP has the shortest name?
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#38This reminds me of the Derek & Clive sketch where a letter of complaint is addressed to the Director General of the BBC:
C**, London
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#39In Ireland you can just describe the person instead of the actual address and it'll get delivered
https://twitter.com/weefeargal/status/1479069076144234497?s=...
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#40In Finland, you can send a letter to Santa Claus with only this address:
Joulupukki 99999 Korvatunturi
Postal code 99999 was reserved for this purpose.