Arthur Figgis wrote:

Cambridge doesn't have a campus. Unless you are a dodgy looking tourist,
in which case it is that way ---

Cambridge as a whole no but the college I'm most familiar with (Churchill)
feels rather campusy.

The colleges each have their own postcodes, though Name, College,
Cambridge is pretty much certain to work (unless there are two people with
the same name there), and there will be a porter to collect whatever it
is. I guess there might be a problem if you are getting a big heavy thing
which needs to be delivered to a very specific place.

I was thinking of things like laser printers and even reams of paper, where
you might want it delivered to a specific entrance/building. These are the
sort of things that might come via a courier who is less familiar with the
set-up and likely to take a college wide post code literally.

My undergraduate university was Kent, with colleges on a campus, and the
post codes told to students often bore little relation to the ones on the
database. (This also created a lot of problems for TV licences.) Compounding
matters was a tendency for some of the more obscure sections to use building
names that weren't very prominently displayed on the buildings themselves or
on signs and it could be quite difficult to find out of the way places - the
students' union (split across multiple buildings) saying things were
happenng in "the Virginia Woolf building" was one of the worst. Some of the
newer accomodation blocks are standalone creatures with no receptions at all
and absolutely no way to contact anyone inside without both having mobile
phones (far from universal when I started).