On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 20:46:04
on Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Tom Anderson remarked:
Town Hall, 128-142 High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1DD
It would be equally correct to write:
Town Hall, 128-142 High Road, Ilford, Outer Mongolia, IG1 1DD

No, because it makes no sense.

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.

I don't see how the former is helpful. If you want to write them a letter,
then the postcode is sufficient, and the addition of Essex is completely
superfluous. If you actually want to go there, the addition of Essex is
actually unhelpful, because if you have modern maps and are not aware that
there's a bit of London which thinks it's in Essex, you'll be looking on
the wrong page. Unless you just look up Ilford directly, in which case the
county designation again is completely superfluous.

tom

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