On 31/08/2018 15:30, Steve Doerr wrote:
On 30/08/2018 22:26, Mark Goodge wrote:
It was incredibly confusing to visitors, as the hamlet was nowhere
near the post town. So we inserted "near [parish name]" as the second
line, when giving the address.
Off-topic, but the Royal Mail have long discouraged the use of 'Near',
but they do allow the use of 'Via'.
I know. But they're not equivalent. Just because a location is "near" a
named place, that does not make it necessary or desirable to travel
"via" that place to get there. And, since the problem is created by
Royal Mail's suboptimal approach to postal addresses in rural areas, we
didn't feel in any way obliged to follow their preferences in the
matter. The post always got to us anyway; it was non-RM deliveries that
were the issue.
These days, of course, it wouldn't really matter. Nobody uses the full
postal address to locate a destination, they just plug the postcode into
their satnav or other mapping application and then just use the street
part of the address for the final leg if necessary.
Mark
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