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[jennyjoan]

My sister received mail that obviously had been opened and taped with sellotape and I think personally posted to her.

Recently I had spoke to a Post Office lady who told me that the post code number is the most important thing that to be put on any kind of mail.

My sister has 4 lines of address on home address - but recently they have omitted 2 lines of the addresses and just have one line of address then post code.

However there is an exact address about 8 streets away from her which has exact first address and same post code. We just found this out yesterday.

Sorry for being long winded but if it was me I would want my full address ie 4 lines of the address on my mail - since if they are depending on the post code - the mail can go to the "other" address.

Is there any authority I can approach on her behalf regarding this matter. Thanks

[chamois]

With regard to your third paragraph, can you tell us what those four lines are? For example, is the first line the street name, the second, the town and the third, the county?
It's difficult to visualise what's going on here without that info.

I think the best you can do is to contact the sender and insist they put the full address on the envelope because of the potential Royal Mail misdirection. There's absolutely nothing you can do about changing the postcode if that's what you had in mind. There are websites online which overlay postcodes on ordnance survey maps so you can see the area covered by the complete postcode.

[jennyjoan]

her name then
a cottage address
an embankment mention
a main road address
Belfast
then postcode which is similar to the cottage address



so for example Number 3 Cottage Address has same post code as the other Number 3 Cottage Address 8 streets away

[Prudie]

It's the sender missing out these lines, who is it?

[sadielady]

I really don't understand how a street that far away has the same postcode. My postcode ends 6LY but the houses opposite end 6LX. Also why have 2 road names the same in the same town. I think maybe one of the houses is using the wrong postcode?

[tiggerblue10]

I thought each road has to have a different postcode.

[roopower]

This doesn't sound right, postcodes don't carry on into other streets, I don't think. In fact a longish road will have several different postcodes.

[roopower]

Can you speak to the postman/lady and ask about the postcodes locally?

[AuntPG]

// then postcode which is similar to the cottage address//

Similar is not the same is is? One letter can make such a difference such as AB12 3CD might be two streets away from AB12 3CE.

Your friend could contact her local council to check her postcode. Whatever the outcome, if the two cottages do have the same postcode, surely the Postman would look at the name on the top of the letter and reealise it was not the person who lived there?

[Smowball]

agree with sadylady - I can’t see how the postcode can be the same

[bhg481]

Type the postcode here:

https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode

and you will get a list of all the addresses covered by it.

Hopefully it will work for NI.

[Redhelen72]

It will have a similar post code but not the same for example my address is
7 the any road xy93 5rf
In the next village there is a house with 7 the any road xy93 5rt
I sometimes get their Mail they sometimes get mine

[Tuvok]

Eachstreet has its own postcode, so you could actually address a letter as eg. wx1 2yz/27 and it would get to the right house.

If I'm sending anything (bigger than a letter) I'll put my address on it in that format.

[Hopkirk]

Probably nothing to do with the postcode.

If the address is similar, it's probably down to the local postie glancing and making a wrong assumption.

[AuntPG]

It would only work if you put the house number or name before the postcode ie 27 , wx1 2yz or The Cottage, wx1 2yz

[gingejbee]

It's rather odd, I know but post deliverers are meant to deliver to the address on the post...even if they know the person doesn't live there!
(I've had a conversation with my excellent postman about this very subject).

[gingejbee]

APG @11.38...the accepted way of doing it is Full postcode (which identifies a certain number of addresses) followed by the actual number of the house..

[rowanwitch]

It's a problem for my mum too, a property on a corner near her has relocated their front door so it's now on her road not It's original one it is really 43 road X now it appears to be 43 road Y which is my mum's address. They seem to miss the different post codes as it's on the same post round.

[barry1010]

One postcode cannot have more than 100 deliverable properties but the average is 15. It is very doubtful that an address in a different road would have exactly the same postcode - I would say impossible if they are 8 streets away.

[ducksie]

I think Hopkirk is correct, it's the postie, I have an address similar to a street not far from me, it's not the postie at fault in my circumstance but couriers, if i order something online I get notification the item has been delivered, it hasn't - to me anyway - so I know exactly where it is, in another street, I'm lucky the lady that lives there understands and sometimes she gets her daughter to bring it round to mine unless I get on to the courier company first and give them an earbashing

[jennyjoan]

thanks for the posts - but the Embankment mention would make all the difference -

The mails are coming from government and her local bank. Her friends ie birthday cards and other friends always put the Embankment in. She has been living there for well over 40 years and the Embankment has always been there on the letters.