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

Roland Perry · August 7th 10, 08:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 15:05:03
on Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 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.

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.

That would still be better than Stevenage (or even Welwyn Garden City,
which is another common place for such offices servicing
faux-Hertfordshire).
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Roland Perry