If you search for an address on the RM website, I find that (at least in London) it does not suggest the post town is used at all, just "London", not "Stratford" or "West Kensington" or whatever. (I mean here- https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode )
--- https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain [email protected] On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, at 3:59 PM, 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 > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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