Just sent the following ot the post office. Hi I object to royal mail making a profit from my post code. So I would like information on boycotting all royal mail services - including letter/parcel delivery to a specific person at a specific address. Also, how would I go about having my property removed from the PAF.
So I'll shut up for now :-) Paul /)/+) 2009/10/6 paul perrin <[email protected]> > Your view is utopian - if postcodes were to be freed then it would almost > certainly have happened by now... wishing it were different doesn't cause > change. > If there were new codes and if royal mail decide not to recognise them, > then you could use an alternative delivery service that does... > > Paul /)/+) > > 2009/10/6 Paul Waring <[email protected]> > >> paul perrin wrote: >> >> > For some time I have thought that the public should boycott post >> > codes... develop an open source alternative and use that... >> >> How can you boycott postcodes? If you don't put postcodes on your mail >> there's an increased chance that it will be delayed or lost in the >> sorting offices of the Royal Mail. >> >> > Couldn't postcodes be extracted from a public source via an freedom of >> > information request? >> >> How would that help? It's not a problem of getting at the data (you >> could just buy a copy of the PAF from the Royal Mail if you really >> wanted to), it's being able to use it. Just because you get some >> information via FoI, it doesn't mean that you can use it however you want. >> >> > It can't be difficult - and if the switch over make is difficult for the >> > authorities, that is their look out... should have listened earlier. >> >> If the switch over is made difficult for the authorities then they >> simple won't bother doing it. As Royal Mail probably sorts and delivers >> the majority of your mail I think they have the upper hand in enforcing >> a system for identifying addresses. :) >> >> Besides, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with postcodes as a >> concept, the only issue is that the data (more specifically the mapping >> from a location to a postcode and back again) is not freely available >> for anyone to use. It would be much better to see the data made >> available rather than invent an entirely new and unsupported system to >> do the same thing. >> >> Paul >> >> -- >> Paul Waring >> http://www.pwaring.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> > >
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