"Roland Perry" wrote :
Town Hall, 128-142 High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1DD
Town Hall, 128-142 High Road, Ilford, Outer Mongolia, IG1 1DD
Neither of them are correct. Both of them would get delivered correctly.
One has additions which are helpful (to the public if not the Post
Office's automatic sorting machine), the other is comedy.

Incorrect, actually.

Since the day that Tony Benn introduced postcodes, adding the 'county' has
been a waste of ink. It's utterly redundant to the sorting process and the
postman on his round.

And I fail to see how it helps anybody else, especially in and around
London, when several Essex, Kent and Surrey addresses (not to mention 100%
of Middlesex), are actually part of Greater London.

County has a historical value for those who value local history, such as Men
of Kent and Kentish Men plus Yorkshire Folk, but to most normal human
beings, the county is an irrelevance.

Sorry.
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Andrew

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