Tuesday 20 January 2009

Postcodes.

Anyone know how they draw them up ?. The thought came forth when I heard that a delivery driver who should have been delivering to Parsonage Lane ended up in Davis Close because the Close and parts of Parsonage Lane share the same postcode but there is no road link between the two meaning that the driver had to do a tour of the village to get to his destination.

2 comments:

babyblox said...

Don't forget that postcodes were drawn up by the post office to facilitate the delivery of mail - not for the convenience of satnav users, marketing companies, and demographic profilers, although all these people use them. The digits after the space in the postcode are the 'incoming code' and the letters represent adjacent streets or neighbourhoods to which a postman can deliver letters as part of the same round. A postman can easily walk from Parsonage Lane into Davies Close, so it makes sense for them to have the same postcode. The fact that it is not possible to drive directly from one to the other is not a consideration.

Anonymous said...

It's not the postcode, but the satnav - which presumably the AA route planner uses as well. Davies Close is EX5 4DL, but, apparently if you turn into the drive of the last house, your satnav will tell you that you are in EX5 4JB. i.e Parsonage Lane