UK postcodes: The intrigue!

[Mary Ann]

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wrote:

<snip postcode babbling>

Profuse apologies for some really awful SPaG in that post.  I must 
learn to lock my kids in the understairs cupboard before sitting down 
at the computer.

::::::looks around:::::  I'm *kidding*!  Honest!  Those muffled 
little cries are coming from next door!

(Anyone get the impression that I didn't get enough sleep last night?)

Anyway, still on the topic of postcodes, I have a strangely-written 
addresses story. DH was a postman for several years, and for some of 
those years he had his round in Locking Castle, a new development 
outside the town.  Every week there'd be a new row of houses and 
completely new streets.  None of the newest houses had numbers, and 
in some cases the streets still didn't have names.  To make things 
really interesting, sometimes the house numbers or even the street 
names would change (all this with no street name signs anywhere).  
And did anyone bother contacting the post office about these 
changes?  Nooooooo.  So every morning Stu played what can only be 
called The Ultimate Postman's Guessing Game.  Brand new properties 
were sent post labelled "Billybob Perkins, Locking Castle, near X".  
Stu being Stu, he delivered the damned things.  Unlike me, he has a 
good memory for names and faces, and provided Billybob had approached 
him once already to complain that he wasn't receiving any mail 
(wonder why? DUH) Stu would find Billybob again.

And were the locals grateful?  Of course not.  His Christmas tips 
didn't cover the price of a cheap bottle of wine.

I hope their sewage backs up.

Mary Ann
(whose DH left Royal Mail a year ago, thankfully)