Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
Mizter T wrote:

No - the official Royal Mail requirement to include postal counties
continued past the creation of Greater London. I'll try and find the
date when the requirement was dropped.

It was in 1996.

Most English postal counties *did* change in the local government
reorganisations of the 1960s & 1970s, with the following exceptions:

* London was not changed due to stretched finances in the 1960s.
* Middlesex continued to be used except for Potters Bar which was move to
Hertfordshire.
* Herefordshire and Worcestershire were kept separate.
* Humberside was split into North Humberside and South Humberside.

Not that many locals would use the word in their addresses, especially
after it was put out of its misery in 1996.

One of the arguments its (few) supporters used was that some local
companies had put Humberside in their names. Then someone else looked at
how many had Yorkshire or Lincolnshire in their names...

--
Arthur Figgis