The post office is suggesting the need to get rid of the requirement of counties in postal addresses such as, in case of my local county council:
Cambridgeshire County Council
Shire Hall, Castle Hill
Cambridge
Cambs
CB3 0AP

with just simply
Cambridgeshire County Council
Shire Hall, Castle Hill
Cambridge
CB3 0AP

See -> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rcels.html

Hardly radical, but some are seeing as some European plot.

I think my favourite thing about that article is the opening line. 'Hail from Avon?' you mean the county of Avon? The county of Avon that hasn't existed in 14 years?

There's no way the Cheshire Show will be referred to as the 4NW Show? Did someone say it would then? Isn't this about delivering letters? I don't think the Royal Mail have any say in the name of county shows. Bell-end. Oh, I've been writing Kent on letters I send locally for work, even though it's not required, and I still haven't had my door busted down or my property taken away by the Euro-Police. JUST SHUT UP.

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So even though it means one less thing to do when writing an address, they still manage to fucking moan!

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there is no suggestion that your letter wouldn't be delivered if you did put your county name on it, just that it's not longer going to be needed (i'm surprised it still was actually).
if you want to continue to write your county on it, surely you still can? it's just that there is no reason other than hallowed tradition (which this is apparently) anymore.

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But don't you see? The Royal Mail has counties hostage, they are the post offices bitch.

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The eejits seem to be confusing the existence of counties with Royal Mail administrative requirements. Are they not aware of the way the world works?

"Are they not aware of the way the world works?"

Mailite thinking :

I know how the world works, and I know that I am the victim of evil shadowy conspirators who are out to destroy everything I hold dear, ie everything that makes me, as a white, lower middle-class, semi-educated, right-wing, taxpaying, immigrant- and criminal-hating southern Englishman, superior to everyone else in the world.

Some letters I just send with the first line of the address and the postcode. Always gets there.

I can't believe anyone really thinks counties are being abolished in the wider world and we'll all have to call Anglesey LL65 from now on (for example). Has to be a case of moaning for the sake of it. I bet there wasn't all this moaning back in the Middle Ages when they stopped using Wessex, Mercia etc. Although I can just picture the Medieval Mail...'Ye Normannes are takynge YOUR jobbes!' 'Sign ye up NOW to smite the heathen Mohammedan in the Thirde Crusade and receeve ye this merveillouse FREE wheelbarrowe worth 5 groats!'

(and before anyone criticises the English there (or Englysshe) I actually studied several medieval languages as part of my degree and am fully aware that's not at all authentic)

I've been lurking forever, but I thought I'd add my 2 pence.


When I was is primary school (about 12 years ago) the entire class as an experiment wrote letters to ourselves. On the Letter was just out names and postcode. For example...

R. Littlejohn
CU41 2NT

And if I remember correctly, every single one of the letters arrived at their destination.


Even today when filling out forms, or when someone asks me for my address its the house name (which is 'Daily Mail Cottage' believe it or not, but I'll get into this later) and then my Postcode. I know the rest in the middle to be pointless. If people have my postcode...the're sorted.

When I worked for Bournemouth Borough Council (oh yes, Bournemouth, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Ealing - I've been around), we were told not to put Dorset on our addresses, presumably as Bournemouth (and Poole) were trying to distance themselves from as they saw it, the yokel-infested county council they were once part of but had calved away from.

Guess what party was in power and encouraged this.

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the machines do prefer a street as well, otherwise it might get rejected and have to be sorted by hand

i rarely do manual sorting but when i do you get a lot that actually have the county, but not the postcode. for some counties that isn't much of an issue but, for example, 'cheshire' could mean a CH,CW,WA,SY or SK postcode depending on where in the county it is.

Yes, I meant the number and street name, plus postcode.

1 Lotsofhouses Street
AB12 3CD

ah right, misunderstood, sorry