Postcode problem

[kevh_uk]

Just had a debate with two colleagues who both claim that every individual house has it's own individual postcode...i was under the impression that postcodes where distributed to entire streets (or sometimes one street would have two post codes if it was exceptionally long). I'm aware that some cxompanies and schools have their own codes but they claim that each house in a street has its own code...who is right?

[VINNY100_2]

My postcode covers 12 houses in my road.(:)

[littlemissx]

mine covers the whole road but only the side with odd numbers.... the evens have a different one

[Shipstabber]

My postcode covers both sides of the top end of my street. On the other hand, every floor in the 6 storey building I work in has its own postcode.

[VINNY100_2]

Sorry,should have said,the 12 houses i mentioned are all odd numbers.The even numbers have there own code.(:)

[woofgang]

my postcode covers 61 houses on a small estate, both the odd and even numbers

[Chessman]

Got to agree with the answers given, postcodes cover a area, not individual houses.

[RogK]

Yes, I think mine covers a dozen or so houses. When you write to someone you only need to put on the envelope the house number and the postcode. Try writing to yourself!

[jake-the-peg]

Mine covers two houses - sounds like the answer is depends

[jno]

Yes, when you try to order something over the phone, they first ask for your postcode, and then for your house number. They know the street name - or at least they know mine - from the postcode. (Other postcodes may cover more than one street, I suppose.)

[Artemis]

My last residence had it's own postcode, but it was a rather large house.

[Buenchico]

Every house in the country is uniquely identifiable by its 'full' postcode. This is the combination of the house number (or name) and the code for that area. ('Area', here, may mean one street or part of one street).

So, while an entire street in Anytown might have the postcode AT2 4PQ, the 'full' postcode of house number 26 in that street is 26AT2 4PQ. (If I post a package, I always put my return address in this simple form, e.g. "Sender = 26AT24PQ". Whenever someone has moved without telling me, the packages have always found their way back to me).

Chris

[MrPahoehoe]

You're definitely right and u can prove it to them here:

http://www.allies-computing.co.uk/onlinetrial.html

you want to "complete the address from a postcode"

[brachiopod]

Yes it does vary. A single code may cover one half of an entire street, or a single detached residence in a remote area.

It could even cover a single (or part) of a floor in a building (commercial premises for example, such as an office block) - especially if it's a company that receives alot of mail. (I remember when I used to be with First Direct many years ago - they had their own postcode for all correspondence, it was LS-something (a Leeds district) 1FD (as in First Direct)