London Banter - View Single Post - [OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File

[email protected] · August 4th 10, 05:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:

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).

There are always University Departments in Cambridge, with a whole load of
other postcodes.

--
Colin Rosenstiel