Working in logistics and having worked in direct marketing for my sins, I would always add the county if you have it.
Postcodes can be entered incorrectly and deduced badly by software such as Anadata. When I worked for a direct marketing house for a year we got data from a bureau that had been ³corrected and set up for a system called mail sort² Every letter destined for Newport was postcoded and sorted for the Isle of White rather than any of the other 9 Newports in the UK. Having the county let us recode it correctly and charge the bureau a small fortuneŠ On 24/06/2014 14:46, "Stephen Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Stephen, >> "Upon" as well as "on" and "under" are often used where cities maintain >> their old medieval names. >> >> Newcastle on Tyne, >> Newcastle under Lyme >> Ashton under Lyne (note: not Lyme) >> Stratford on Avon >> Kingston upon Hull >> >> It is normally used to distinguish their name from other places. For >> example there are at least 3 Newcastle's I know of in totally different >> areas of the country. >> >> Many times the on, under, upon are added hyphenated eg. >>Newcastle-on-Tyne >> >> If in doubt, as Al says the Postcode (like your Zipcode) actually >>uniquely >> identifies the place to within a few houses (your blocks) and this is >>what >> is used when the mail is being sorted anyway. Name plus house >>number/road >> and postcode will always get there. >> >> ------------------------- >> > >This is all to be used in a Bill of Lading document. The driver needs to >know the city/town. In reality our plants are usually quite close to our >top trading partners to keep freight costs down. We ship truck loads of >air inside of a lot of empty plastic bottles. :) > > > > > > > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen >> Russell >> Sent: 24 June 2014 14:32 >> To: ProFox Email List >> Subject: Re: [NF] UK address correctness >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Yes, >> > County and Postcode are usually placed together on the last line of >> > the address >> > >> > <Name> >> > <Address 1> >> > <Address 2> >> > <Locality> >> > <County <Postcode> >> > >> > ------------------ >> >> >> I appreciate that. >> >> Is there a rule for use of the word "upon" in address as well? >> >> Looking at >> Kingston upon Hull >> HU9 5EX >> >> One of my ship to addresses that our old reports does. The data in the >>db >> has no reference to Kingston upon. I only see Hull and then the postal >> code in the data presented so far. >> >> We paid the vendor for the custom version of our UK BOL report. I am >> replacing it with a SSRS version that also calls a Certificate of >>Analysis >> sub report allowing our staff less key strokes at releasing the truck. >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen Russell >> Sr. Analyst >> Ring Container Technology >> Oakland TN >> >> 901.246-0159 cell >> >> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative >> text/plain (text body -- kept) >> text/html >> --- >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cfcf4ae7.23277%[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
