>> A growing number of organisations now ask me for my DOB or my >> postcode, rather than my name, when looking me up. I think you just >> explained why. In my country we have an increasing number of foreign >> family names, which probably helps it along. > >UK postcodes are incredibly fine-grained, compared to most of the rest of the >world, where they would be much less useful for identification. > >Eric
Back when I lived in England our postcode was DT1 2DQ with the first substring indicating the postmans' route (Dorchester Town 1) and the second substring indicating the approximate position along the route i.e. the "visitation order" of addresses along that route. A simple sort by postcode made sure that the mail landed in the correct bag and that the postman needed to look only at the next letters' postcode to know where to go next. Postcodes here in Austria only designate the nearest delivery post office (which may change) ___________________________________________ Gunter Hick | Software Engineer | Scientific Games International GmbH | Klitschgasse 2-4, A-1130 Vienna | FN 157284 a, HG Wien, DVR: 0430013 | (O) +43 1 80100 - 0 May be privileged. May be confidential. Please delete if not the addressee. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
