In the later years of the UK TV show, I'm sure they shortened the postal address to just the show's name: "You've Been Framed."
What is the minimal possible UK address?
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Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll bet "Rishi Sunak" would get to 10 Downing Street. Although that's also an address with it's own postcode, so "SW1A 2AA" would also get there.
Many buildings in London actually have multiple postcodes. In general UK postcodes are granular enough that almost any combination of a name and code should make it, save for situations like several people with identical names living in flats that are fewer than N floors apart.
Postcodes are designed to facilitate sorting and last mile delivery so no surprise if large buildings have multiple codes. DVLA in Swansea has several, probably because they get a lot of post in a few distinct categories.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a couple of buildings in the US with their own zip code. The White House is one, as is the Empire State building.
The Pentagon manages to have at least 6 zip codes assigned to it (each branch has its own zip code).
In the UK, with its more granular postcodes, office buildings can have one or more postcodes per floor.
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The Duke of Wellington's address, Apsley House, was famously: 1, London Funny story: Back in the 1950s, my father went on a rugby tour to the Soviet Union. One of his team mates wrote a postcard back to his mum with an address of: Mrs Williams, Clynderwen "Clynderwen" being the little village he came from. My dad said, "You can't just put that". He, none too bright, said "Why not? There's only one Clynderwen", and po…
This is the most british-ish written post I have ever read, and now my internal dialog is stuck on the british accent setting. Ill never forget my great aunt amy (my grandmothers sister, they were both canadian by birth in 1923-time) "Grandma, I didnt know Amy was british!?" "Neither did we dear, neither did we" (My great aunt would talk with a British accent) Family fact - my uncle (Amy's son) went to school with Bi…
You should reconfigure that dialog to Welsh ;-)
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#335Some brilliant examples of postal detective work in Ireland documented here https://www.quora.com/Can-you-send-mail-in-Ireland-with-the-... . eg Petra Kindler and Donal Moore Unfortunately I forgot the street name but it's near a street named *Cul de Sac* The beautiful city of Waterford, well known for its kindly postmen IRELAND
I personally received a letter to:
"Fergal Reid, Longford, Ireland", in the late 90s. Ireland had no postcodes at the time.
I lived in a small village on the edge of a county called Longford; my name isn't that unique in Ireland.
The funny thing about the story, is that the letter was posted in the Philippines, and was physical spam mail, trying to hook me into some sort of scam. They had pulled the partial address from a domain name record. No idea how the economics of that worked!
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#336In 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…
Futuristic? Mate, you've just invented physical versions of phone numbers.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Duke of Wellington's address, Apsley House, was famously: 1, London Funny story: Back in the 1950s, my father went on a rugby tour to the Soviet Union. One of his team mates wrote a postcard back to his mum with an address of: Mrs Williams, Clynderwen "Clynderwen" being the little village he came from. My dad said, "You can't just put that". He, none too bright, said "Why not? There's only one Clynderwen", and po…
> 6 months later, and about 5 1/2 after the end of the tour, it arrived. All over it were notes saying things like "Unknown in Hong Kong. Try Australia". Man, that's some serious organizational ethic! If only both companies and people were as exact today...
We received a letter from a friend in France, in the 2000s, addressed to Wellington but no country specified. Also present were an nz postmark and "try great Britain".
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#338I think this is commonly known due to address finders online for shopping etc. providing autofill based on these two items.
However, I would be more interested to understand how the address is used by the postman delivering the mail.
If you have just a post code, do they have to look up the street name (how?) or is it already pre-organised for them so they know that stack/bag X of letters all corresponds to street Y and so they only really need to look at the door number?
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this not basically once-off nerd-sniping for post workers... "ooh: here's a challenge."? I'm sure you only hear about the success stories.
In my case it was an embarrassing success story... my great uncles name was globally, or at least unique in Germany, i misspelled it, got the postcode wrong, forgot street and house number (sent from abroad)... and it arrived a month or so later. Boy got I laughed at. I'd rather wished it had disappeared. Thats was back in the 90's.
Some other embarassing success story. My gf bought a postcard in Czech Republic, filled it with my address in Warsaw, but forgot to buy poststamps.
She didn't send the postcards and carried them to Warsaw. In Warsaw they fell out of her pocket on a street, or something like that.
Still, they arrived in our post box. We still don't have an idea how and why :)
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll bet "Rishi Sunak" would get to 10 Downing Street. Although that's also an address with it's own postcode, so "SW1A 2AA" would also get there.
I'll bet "Rishi Sunak" would get to 10 Downing Street. I wonder if random mail sent to top level politicians actually gets to them. The intention is clear, yes, but there's probably layers of security that will prevent it from getting to its intended address...
I wonder if a letter addressed to “Liz Truss” would have got there in time for her to still be in residence.