[thelist] international friendly form

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Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Dave

The addresses in the PAF database (ie the addresses database
which the Royal Mail maintains) are by definition the 'correct'
postal addresses. And postcodes map real areas on the ground.

These may or may not map onto the addresses people are *used*
to using (eg it *really* annoys me that Edinburgh is defined as being
in the county of Midlothian), because people base the addresses they
use on a combination of
* Postal address
* Local government boundaries
* Geographical features (more akin to directions)
* What it says on their house deeds

However, if you put the correct postal address on a piece of
snail mail, it will reach the correct destination with no problems (because
the UK has a fairly intelligent postal system, even if you really go off
base, it will still nearly always get there)

Cheers
Martin





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On 2/7/01, thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org said:

>Can't speak for other countries, but in the UK there's a
>nice product which allows you to put in a house number &
>postcode, and it returns the entire address, either as fields
>or as perfectly formatted (for mail purposes) text.

Can't speak for the rest of the UK, but this has a LOT of problems in
Scotland, where the addresses that many of us use are *not* those in
the postcode databases. Makes for interesting discussions with people
who are convinced that you don't know what your address is. After
all, the database must be right, right?



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