Thread: [OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File
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Old August 8th 10, 07:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roy Badami Roy Badami is offline
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Default [OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address
On 07/08/10 22:50, wrote:

1996 is a logical date for the change. It's when the estuarial counties
created in 1974 (Avon, Humberside& Cleveland) were abolished, as far as
local government was concerned anyway.

I think that's somewhat coincidental. The Royal Mail has never really
cared if their postal counties are out of date with respect to local
government areas. I think the change is more to do with modernisation
of the post office's sorting systems - with more reliance on the
postcode than other elements of the address.

-roy


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