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

[email protected] · August 6th 10, 08:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
10:39:00 on Fri, 6 Aug 2010, David Walters
remarked:

It doesn't even work for other delivery companies, who will typically
ask you to go and retrieve a mis-delivered packet at their Stevenage
office, when the Cambridge office is a third of the distance away and
in a town you probably visit quite often - rather than almost never

That might have nothing to do with postcodes or counties. The delivery
company depot is chosen for their convenience and they might use the
Stevenage one because it is bigger and has more capacity than their
Cambridge one, even if the later is nearer.

They might, but it doesn't sound plausible to me.

Nor is it plausible that a plumber would prefer to be called out
all the way from Stevenage, rather than from Cambridge etc etc.

The fact that you have to travel further to collect a parcel doesn't
bother them, you aren't even their customer.

That's the cynical view, but it also means they have to drive
further to deliver it. This is a classic "cockup" situation,
arising from the inappropriate application of postcodes.

You were lucky the Cambridge office wasn't several miles the other side of
Cambridge on the way to Huntingdon, as happened to me once.

--
Colin Rosenstiel