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What is the minimal possible UK address?
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Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#42Back 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 don’t need the flat part.
You do if you don't want one of the other residents taking and opening it instead..(!) ;-)
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#43Clearing 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
I've seen things done like that here in the US also. Something like...
First Name, Last Name
Blue house down by the creek, next to a yellow shed
State, Town, Zip
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#44Why would he publish his own address for the whole internet to see?
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#45Clearing 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
I remember from one of my first jobs, we received a vacation postcard addressed to:
- Dear friends - Lange voorhuid - Holland
.... Lange voorhuid was a mis-spelling of the streetname: "Lange Voorhout", which is someone unique to The Hague... but didn't have a housenumber (and it's a long street). Still, the postcard arrived at our company before the sender got back from vacation.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#46You can also register aliases somehow.
If you need to send something (cheques etc) to Monzo bank I'm pretty sure you can just write "Monzo" on the envelope. No stamp needed.
Pretty sure = it worked like 6 years ago when I last encountered a cheque.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
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Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#48In 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...
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#49Earlier 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".
GB is the correct ISO country code for Great Britain.
I would not be confident in postal systems routing letters based on ISO country codes. If you send your letter in Tennessee with AR at the bottom of it, it's going to Arkansas or nowhere, not Argentina.
Re: What is the minimal possible UK address?
#50Earlier 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".
GB is the correct ISO country code for Great Britain.
GB is the correct ISO country code for Great Britain
But is the mail in the source country sorted by people, computers programmed by people, or by the ISO committee?