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Don't You Just Love The Royal Mail?
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I know. It's a busy time for them but I received a card today addressed to someone who lives at the same house number and street as me but unfortunately they live 220 miles in Winchester. I live in Middleton, they live in Littleton. I live in Manchester, they live in Winchester. I live in Lancs, they live in Hants. Wouldn't you think someone at the Southampton or Manchester sorting office might have asked a question or two? They only just missed the letterbox by 220 miles. Don't you just love the Royal Mail?
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The only thing that matters when letters go through the sorting system is your full 'postcode address' (which includes the house number).
So if you live at 23 Acacia Avenue, Sometown, Northshire, XY1 2AB, your address (as far as the sorting system is concerned) is simply 23XY12AB. It's those characters which are encoded onto the envelope by the optical character recognition software that attempts to read people's handwriting (or by the person who has to manually deal with anything that can't be machine read).
Either somebody has written 'SO22' so appallingly that the machine has picked it up as 'M24' or, possibly more likely, two envelopes have got jammed together in a sorting machine, so that the the code for one envelope has been imprinted onto the other one.
Once the incorrect code is on an envelope it automatically finds it way to the road associated with that code, without any further human intervention. The postie then has a pile of envelopes destined for Bloggs Road and is only required to look at the house number to complete the delivery.
So if you live at 23 Acacia Avenue, Sometown, Northshire, XY1 2AB, your address (as far as the sorting system is concerned) is simply 23XY12AB. It's those characters which are encoded onto the envelope by the optical character recognition software that attempts to read people's handwriting (or by the person who has to manually deal with anything that can't be machine read).
Either somebody has written 'SO22' so appallingly that the machine has picked it up as 'M24' or, possibly more likely, two envelopes have got jammed together in a sorting machine, so that the the code for one envelope has been imprinted onto the other one.
Once the incorrect code is on an envelope it automatically finds it way to the road associated with that code, without any further human intervention. The postie then has a pile of envelopes destined for Bloggs Road and is only required to look at the house number to complete the delivery.
Yes, I do love the Royal Mail.
You failed to mention whether the card you received today included a post code. If it did include a post code for Littleton, Hants, then I think you had a right to be a bit annoyed.
Why not be a good Samaritan, find the correct post code from the internet, write it on the envelope and stick it in the nearest post box?
You failed to mention whether the card you received today included a post code. If it did include a post code for Littleton, Hants, then I think you had a right to be a bit annoyed.
Why not be a good Samaritan, find the correct post code from the internet, write it on the envelope and stick it in the nearest post box?
Lynne most of people I want to know postcode or are personally delivered otherwise use this.
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