On 15 Apr, 14:28, MIG wrote:

On 15 Apr, 10:32, "Batman55" wrote:

"John Rowland" wrote:

Is there a definitive postcode (outcode) map online?

All the maps I have show Mayow Rd as being half in SE23, half in SE26,
whereas numerous signs on the road itself say that it is all in SE23...
however, signs on Lockwood Close show that as SE26, and I can't imagine
the post office putting a dead-end road off an SE23 road in SE26. However,
2 sign errors, one rather bizarre, within a half-kilometre of Mayow Road
cause me to have no confidence in Lewisham Council's signage department.

If you go to the Post Office postcode page
http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal...catId=400145&p...
and enter Mayow Road you will find it lists both SE23 and SE26 and you can
then look at which numbers are in which.

I expect it matters less with the merging of delivery offices. There
has tended to be one delivery office per postcode, but not in future.

What matters less?

The northern part of Mayow Rd lies in SE23, the southern in SE26. This
isn't a big deal - the division obviously made sense with regards to
the locations of the local delivery offices when the postcode
districts were drawn up. It actually makes life easier, rather than
the whole of Mayow Road being in just one postcode resulting in a long
sliver intruding into another postcode.

On 15 Apr, 14:41, Mizter T wrote:
On 15 Apr, 14:28, MIG wrote:





On 15 Apr, 10:32, "Batman55" wrote:

"John Rowland" wrote:

Is there a definitive postcode (outcode) map online?

All the maps I have show Mayow Rd as being half in SE23, half in SE26,
whereas numerous signs on the road itself say that it is all in SE23....
however, signs on Lockwood Close show that as SE26, and I can't imagine
the post office putting a dead-end road off an SE23 road in SE26. However,
2 sign errors, one rather bizarre, within a half-kilometre of Mayow Road
cause me to have no confidence in Lewisham Council's signage department.

If you go to the Post Office postcode page
http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal...catId=400145&p....
and enter Mayow Road you will find it lists both SE23 and SE26 and you can
then look at which numbers are in which.

I expect it matters less with the merging of delivery offices. *There
has tended to be one delivery office per postcode, but not in future.

What matters less?

The northern part of Mayow Rd lies in SE23, the southern in SE26. This
isn't a big deal - the division obviously made sense with regards to
the locations of the local delivery offices when the postcode
districts were drawn up. It actually makes life easier, rather than
the whole of Mayow Road being in just one postcode resulting in a long
sliver intruding into another postcode.- Hide quoted text -

I meant that having bits of one postcode isolated or protruding into
another postcode doesn't matter so much if the same delivery office
now delivers to both postcodes.

On 15 Apr, 16:09, MIG wrote:

On 15 Apr, 14:41, Mizter T wrote:

On 15 Apr, 14:28, MIG wrote:

On 15 Apr, 10:32, "Batman55" wrote:

"John Rowland" wrote:

Is there a definitive postcode (outcode) map online?

All the maps I have show Mayow Rd as being half in SE23, half in SE26,
whereas numerous signs on the road itself say that it is all in SE23...
however, signs on Lockwood Close show that as SE26, and I can't imagine
the post office putting a dead-end road off an SE23 road in SE26. However,
2 sign errors, one rather bizarre, within a half-kilometre of Mayow Road
cause me to have no confidence in Lewisham Council's signage department.

If you go to the Post Office postcode page
http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal...catId=400145&p...
and enter Mayow Road you will find it lists both SE23 and SE26 and you can
then look at which numbers are in which.

I expect it matters less with the merging of delivery offices. There
has tended to be one delivery office per postcode, but not in future.

What matters less?

The northern part of Mayow Rd lies in SE23, the southern in SE26. This
isn't a big deal - the division obviously made sense with regards to
the locations of the local delivery offices when the postcode
districts were drawn up. It actually makes life easier, rather than
the whole of Mayow Road being in just one postcode resulting in a long
sliver intruding into another postcode.- Hide quoted text -

I meant that having bits of one postcode isolated or protruding into
another postcode doesn't matter so much if the same delivery office
now delivers to both postcodes.

OK, understood.

In article
, MIG
writes
The northern part of Mayow Rd lies in SE23, the southern in SE26. This
isn't a big deal - the division obviously made sense with regards to
the locations of the local delivery offices when the postcode
districts were drawn up.

I meant that having bits of one postcode isolated or protruding into
another postcode doesn't matter so much if the same delivery office
now delivers to both postcodes.

It may well have been the case that those two districts were always
handled by the same delivery office. There are only 4000 postcodes in a
district, and some need to be reserved for future expansion, so if there
are more than (say) 3500 coding points in the area covered by an office,
it needs more than one outward code.

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