I agree. I suspect that the post town / dependent locality are
correlated against the post code by the OCR processing. If there was no
post town it would seriously degrade the scanning accuracy as the
postcode OCR would need to be 100% accurate, which is not going to
happen given the number of handwritten addresses.
On 2020-12-21 16:59, Adam Snape wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Post towns may be somewhat arbitrary, but they are at least a verifiable
> national scheme which we can use for addressing every location in the
> country. That has to have some benefits compared to each individual mapper
> deciding where they believe each address falls - easy for many places,
> likely contentious for others. The other consistent scheme we could use is
> tagging by local authority but that's likely to annoy just as many people.
>
> I also disagree with the assertion that post towns are no longer used or only
> of use to RM. Whilst a street address and postcode should suffice, there is
> an expectation that post is fully addressed. By including the full address,
> post can still arrive at the correct address despite an obscured, incorrect
> or illegible postcode. The advantage of a consistent national scheme of
> addressing is as useful to other couriers in this regard as it is to RM. If
> you should use parcel labels supplied by the couriers I have usually found
> them to follow RM's addressing scheme including the relevant post town.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Adam
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