In message , at 22:31:43 on Mon, 8
Dec 2008, Andrew Heenan remarked:
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.

So what you meant to write was "Correct, actually". The additions of
either Essex or Outer Mongolia not helping the Post office's automatic
sorting machine.

But for people who live the other end of the country, and haven't the
faintest idea what "IG" stands for, adding "Essex" is quite helpful, and
adding "Outer Mongolia" is puerile comedy.
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Roland Perry