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Its not Liverpool. Look at the map!

 

The CH post codes use the Chester Sorting office. One needs to be sure
of one's fact before one presses the send button.

 

....and not full of Londoner's either.................

 

Merlin says...

The thieving scallies have moved south in search of richer pickings.

 

Maybe I'm missing something, but what on earth are you talking about? I
have no doubt at all that a Chester post code means that letters come via
the main Chester sorting office. That's what the post codes are *for*.

But as my example implies, a Chester post code doesn't mean that the
address is actually in Chester.

 

Verdigris says...

We have an MK postcode here, but we live in mid-Bedfordshire. Milton
Keynes, which is in Buckinghamshire, is 15 miles away.

 

Agreed, as stated on the Royal Mail website the first one or two
letters identify the sorting office that will process the mail, ****
all to do with actual location.

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400120&mediaId=9200078
#3400055

 

I did

HTH

 

And I've got a Redhill post code despite living >25 miles from there
and in a different county. Aldershot has Guildford post codes, doesn't
mean anything other that a convenience for the Post Office.

Been there, that was sufficient.

 

Oh, really? So why did the 'other side' lose their CH postcodes for a
number of years into the L postcode, only to be re-instated at their
previous pc later on? It all has a bearing on your insurance, too.

And why does the postcode have such a bearing on your insurance anyway?
I'm not in the Liverpool district, I don't pay any taxes to the
Liverpool district, so why should I be penalised because I have an L23
due to the restruction of boundaries that occured when I was 7?

Oh, as they are currently deciding whether or not we get our post
sorted elsewhere, does that mean our postcode changes again? I think
not.

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Nope, look at the map and don't try and be a numbnunts.


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How long ago..?

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And failed.

HTH even further.

Merseyside is not Liverpool, Merseyside encompesses a larger area that
ranges from Southport through to the boundaries of Cheshire. [1]

Now, as the regional boundaries change throughout our lives, I'm sure
that Ian can appreciate that there will be significant differences.

He is cordially invited up to my pub to peruse the (very old) map on
the wall that will, without doubt, tell him he is not too well up on
this subject. I'll even buy him a pint or three. If he can manage it.

[1] Mersey Regional Ambulance Service [2] covers Cheshire, it's a wide
area you know.

[2] HQ in Anfield.

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Did you actually read the link I posted? I know I wrapped it so here is
the appropriate section cut and pasted for you.
"The first one or two letters is the postcode area and it identifies
the main Royal Mail sorting office which will process the mail"

Sorry to have touched a nerve.

 

left unsnipped for context.

Can I put in a vote for it not being Liverpool? Because if Southport
is in Liverpool that makes me a scouser...

Can I come? I like old maps. has it got 'here be scallies' on it?

 

You really do take this all ever so seriously

 

~ 10 years, several visits for work

 

Post Codes do not directly relate to an administrative area. However,
they *do* relate to a specific group of addresses. They have become
increasngly used by bodies other than the Post Office - FedEx won't
deliver a parcel without a Post Code, for example, and I routinely use
them with MultiMap and its ilk. Insurance Companies just use them in that
way.

They could say "Ooh! Liverpool! That'll be expensive then." But then
folk will just claim "Actually I don't live in Liverpool." The post code,
however - regardless of whether it's a L, a CH or an XYZ - tells the
truth, so you get to pay the going rate for where you live.

To be fair, there is a bit of an issue with the lack of granularity used
by the Insurance Companies. The full post code goes down to quite a small
area but Insurance Companies tend to stop with just the first part of the
code, which can include a wide range of different areas.

I know of several instances of places where the post code has been changed
for just this sort of reason. It can be tricky, though, because folk get
used to a particular code and keep using it even though it may be out of
date.

In fact, you yourself talked of "the other side" swapping between "L" and
"CH" codes.

 

Thanks.

 

Verdigris emerged from their own little world to say

I got a bit confused when I started looking for houses for my mum in
Monmouth a short while ago.

When I worked there the postcodes all began NP5 as the town had it's own
sorting office. I tried searching for houses in districts where I thought I
remembered the postcode format. E.g. we lived in NP5 3AR in the 70s so
anything simialr to that would be close to an area she was familiar with
even if it was a new development. So I thought.

Apparently, the sorting office closed and the area became a subset of
Newport West, NP20, with the postcodes having the NP25 prefix. However, the
cunts could not simply add a 2 to the existing codes. Nope, they had to
completely reassign the suffixes too. NP25 3AR is 2 miles from my old
address at NP5 3AR.