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Postcodes within the UK are fairly particular — a postcode comparable to “SE1 6AD” will usually determine one or a couple of particular
buildings, in contrast to international locations the place a postcode represents a complete neighbourhood.
This results in an attention-grabbing query: how quick are you able to get an handle and nonetheless have Royal Mail ship submit there?
To determine this out, I made a decision to seek out probably the most minimal approach to write my dwelling handle, ship myself a letter utilizing that
handle, and see what occurs. To keep away from doxxing myself, I’ve fastidiously modified the handle readers see.
That is how I’d usually write my handle:
Flat 2
20 Harper Highway
SE1 6AD
London
In my constructing, mail for all flats will get delivered to the identical postbox, so we don’t want the flat half.
20 Harper Highway
SE1 6AD
London
Writing “London” can be positively not needed — the outward code a part of my postcode, “SE1”, already says
“south-eastern London”, that’s what “SE” stands for.
This leaves us with:
20 Harper Highway
SE1 6AD
Can we get extra minimal than this? We will — Harper Highway is the one street within the “SE1 6AD” postcode, so there isn’t a use
writing the street identify.
Our last handle is:
20
SE1 6AD
We will’t get the handle any shorter than this, as a result of there are a number of home numbers in my postcode, and with out the
home quantity it could not be clear which home to ship to. I’m certain some postcodes solely comprise one home quantity, in
which case you may use simply the postcode as your handle, which might be fairly cool. Anyway, that is adequate for
me.
I wrote myself a letter, headed to the closest postbox, and posted it.
into the postbox
A few days later, I used to be very glad to seek out this in my postbox!
