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Crossrail NOT making connections
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. -- Roland Perry |
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Roland Perry wrote:
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. As i pointed out, it could also be very unhelpful. At least with Outer Mongolia, you know it's wrong, and will have to look it up, but with Essex, you might be fooled into thinking it really is in Essex, and start tootling off town the A134 in largely the wrong direction. But okay, let's rule out Outer Mongolia as silly. I'm happy to do that. Presumably, you would then accept, on the grounds of helpfulness you've outlined, that writing "London" would be better than "Essex"? tom -- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. -- Albert Einstein |
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In message , at
15:14:01 on Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Tom Anderson remarked: Presumably, you would then accept, on the grounds of helpfulness you've outlined, that writing "London" would be better than "Essex"? No, because I probably already know it's inside the M25, but telling me it's Essex narrows it down to a small segment of the conurbation (roughly, between the river and the M11). -- Roland Perry |
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