On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Jon Reades wrote: > And the following exceptions are also valid to some degree: > > 1. GIR 0AA -- a bank that sounds like they were issued this code either > so long ago that they hadn't decided on a format, or completely by accident
GiroBank was originally a bank service run by the Post Office so the Post Office gave it a special postcode. It is now run by Alliance and Leicester, but still has the special postcode. In fact the exception in GIR 0A[A-Z] as they have different postcodes for different departments. Graham.
