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[OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2010\08\02 11:30, Theo Markettos wrote: Should that go to Newport (Isle of Wight), Newport (Gwent), Newport (Telford& Wrekin), Newport (Hants) or Newport (Essex)? How many places do you have to send the letter around to find if a Mr Jones lives there? Since you're the post office, and you delivered the mail yesterday and the day before, you should know which Station Road has a Mr Jones in it, i.e. the person's name is a checksum. Indeed. But do you ring up the delivery offices in each of those places and try to get through to the postie who happens to do that round? Or do you play (literal!) pass-the-parcel around all the various possible sorting offices until you find one who recognise the name? Which could take weeks (for example, if a postie was on holiday). Theo |
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[OT] Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode AddressFile
On 2010\08\02 18:02, Theo Markettos wrote:
Basil wrote: On 2010\08\02 11:30, Theo Markettos wrote: Should that go to Newport (Isle of Wight), Newport (Gwent), Newport (Telford& Wrekin), Newport (Hants) or Newport (Essex)? How many places do you have to send the letter around to find if a Mr Jones lives there? Since you're the post office, and you delivered the mail yesterday and the day before, you should know which Station Road has a Mr Jones in it, i.e. the person's name is a checksum. Indeed. But do you ring up the delivery offices in each of those places and try to get through to the postie who happens to do that round? Or do you play (literal!) pass-the-parcel around all the various possible sorting offices until you find one who recognise the name? Which could take weeks (for example, if a postie was on holiday). No, the scanner that currently does OCR on the postcode of every letter would also do OCR on the text that precedes the postcode and store every combination to allow subsequent comparison on letters where the postcode is unreadable. |
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