how do you register your postcode

paul2louise

I would like to register my postcode as i am buying a new build property. I know my postcode but have to wait until it is completed before the building company will register it for me. Someone has told me that i can ring the post office and do it myself but i have got a premium rate number 0906 and i dont even know if i can do it.

Can anyone help

Louise

adr0ck

Royal Mail
Address Management Unit
Adn=miral House
2 Admiral Way
Doxford International Business Park
SUNDERLAND
SR3 3XW

Tel: 0845 6011110
Fax: 0845 6022203

lovelldr

We are buying a new flat, and the post code has been registered with the post office (well, I have managed to find the address of the people who have already moved in with that post code). But when trying to get insurance quotes online on the internet, it says that the post code has not be recognised... Is there any way of getting a quote online when this is the case?!

Cheers...

flang

lovelldr wrote:

We are buying a new flat, and the post code has been registered with the post office (well, I have managed to find the address of the people who have already moved in with that post code). But when trying to get insurance quotes online on the internet, it says that the post code has not be recognised... Is there any way of getting a quote online when this is the case?!

Cheers...

Until the insurance company buys a new database from royalmail your postcode wont be listed for at least a few months even years!!!
My postcode has only just started working and I registered is back in october!!

Bargain_Rzl

flang wrote:

Until the insurance company buys a new database from royalmail your postcode wont be listed for at least a few months even years!!!
My postcode has only just started working and I registered is back in october!!

I'm in the process of buying a new build flat and phoned the council yesterday to ask about the council tax banding - knowing that a couple of the flats in the same block are already occupied. They could only find the address in question listed under the postcode for the next street along - which is even a different postcode area! The block is in Peckham SE15 according to the council, and Camberwell SE5 according to the property particulars! :rolleyes:

ukmonkey

paul2louise wrote:

I would like to register my postcode as i am buying a new build property. I know my postcode but have to wait until it is completed before the building company will register it for me. Someone has told me that i can ring the post office and do it myself but i have got a premium rate number 0906 and i dont even know if i can do it.

Can anyone help

Louise

If you know your postcode then it doesn't need registering. You may have to contact Royal Mail to notify them that the property is completed and is now [ready to be] occupied.

paul2louise

my builders told me my postcode and said it will be registered with the royal mail in a month or so. So i presume it will not be on any databases yet
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Louise

Jay1b

How postcodes assigned anyway?

Bargain_Rzl

Jay1b wrote:

How postcodes assigned anyway?

I think in most places they start off in alphabetical order - for example in London, W1, WC1, SE1, SW1, E1, N1, NW1 are the Central area but then within each region they're alphabetical, so for example in SE London, SE2=Abbey Wood, SE3=Blackheath, SE4=Brockley, SE5=Camberwell, SE6=Catford and so on. But every so often there's a review of what goes where - for example in SE London the last alphabetical area is SE18=Woolwich, but the SE postcodes then go all the way up to SE28 with areas that weren't originally within the SE London plan ... All sorts of reviews can happen to accommodate expanding regional areas, for example while I lived in York YO1, my postcode was changed to YO10.

paul2louise

I have contacted royal mail by email

postcodeadmin@royalmail.com

using this address so its free and they have now set up my postcode on their database. They told me it would take a couple of days before other computers on the net would get updated so i should be able to insurance quotes very soon

Louise

Debt_Free_Chick

Jay1b wrote:

How postcodes assigned anyway?

I think it's primarily according to the sorting office for the area. Mail is sorted firstly by postcode and then by "postal town"

For example ... Hastings has a Tonbridge postcode as that's the nearest "main" sorting office, even though it's 30 or more miles away. So mail gets sorted by TN (postcode) first, in Tonbridge and then by Hastings (postal town) next.

The other annoyance is that there is absolutely no correlation between postcodes, STD codes and parish/district council boundaries. There are people in our parish with an STD code for the neighbouring parish. Most of us have a postal town address which is for another nearby parish and others have a different postal town!

All very confusing.