About 6 months ago Royal Mail wrote to us to tell us our postcode will be changing. Just got confirmation of this today.

 

My postcode: NN11 5** has now changed to NN11 0**

 

WTF is the point in that????????

 

The only reason I could come up with initially before I knew the new one was that more houses get built etc, but whats wrong with NN12, NN13,...,NN99? But I cant see why changing the 5 to a 0 has helped anyone lol?

 

Will have to write to all banks, all utilities, etc to tell them this now, all of whom will probably want proof :rolleyes:

its so they can blame the shite service non delivery of letters on something different, than they now employ people who can't read where theyre supposed to be delivering, in fact because of where they come from, they aint ever HEARD of where they're delivering :rolleyes:

 

we get quite a bit of recorded mail, and i reckon the posties have been 3 different ones this week, yesterday he said as he stood in the rain, "good job it's my last day" i just replied "sorry m8 i didn't know you had a first" :(

maybe the people in your postcode complained about sharing it with you ? lol

LOL :p

They have added a new postcode sector to the NN11 postcode district. Which means? Oh all right, I'll tell you.

 

The first part of the Postcode (i.e. NN11 - the bit before the space) is called the outward code: it identifies the town or district to which the letter is to be sent for further sorting. So if I send you a letter to NN11 0xx, it goes into the letter box and ends up in my local mail sorting office (i.e. Slough). There, they sort all the letters for any postcode NN11 xxx into one bag marked NN11.

 

That's so my sorting office know to send it to the sorting office that deals with NN11

 

When it gets there, the NN11 sorting office sorts it again into the local sectors which are the bit after the space: your old one was 5xx and your new one is 0xx.

 

(BTW sector 0 is the 10th sector, not the first: 1 is the first)

 

Let's say a postcode is NN11 0AX

 

NN is the postal area. There are 124 postcode areas in the UK

11 is the district. Approx 20 Postcode districts in an area.

The above is the outware code.

The inward code is

0 is the sector. Approx 3,000 addresses in a sector

AX is the Unit. Usually 15 domestic addresses per Unit.

 

The inward code is usually a thoroughfare, part of a thoroughfare or (eg for businesses who get a lot of mail) an individual address.

 

Postcodes were invented like this to match the actual route walked by Postman Pat and his merry colleagues. Better, in that respect, than the US Zipcode whicj is just numbers with no geographical relationship to the real world.

 

They are intensely irritating as they require you to use the shift key several time while typing - especially on a steamdriven typoewriter.

 

And IIRC they were introduced by that left wing looney Viscount Stansgate- sorry, Anthony Wedgewood-Benn, sorry Tony Benn when he was Minister for Posts and Telecommunications. I think he also ditched the alpha exchanges (eg my first phone number was Abbey 3139) for number only. But then he did (as Minister for Technology) oversee the development of Concorde so we have a lot to thank the pipe-smoking tea-drinking commie for.

 

:D

Cheers Gio :D Doesnt stop them being :xxx: tho :p

Post office workers???

 

Work shy layabouts more like :mad:

 

When I left school everyone, I knew who was a lazy good for nothing tosser got a job at the post office. My sister's ex was a postie and he was always off sick for one thing or another. He and his mates used to clock in for each other, then cover each other's rounds just so the bosses never knew they were off sick for weeks.

 

He eventually got the sack (no pun intended :rolleyes: ), I believe, for very poor attendance.

 

Don't get me started.....

 

Richard :x:

you still gonna get me pipe, eh... i mean package, eh... doh! :tongue: