how do you register your postcode

Jay1b

Thanks guys... but what i meant was...

WHO decides upon the exact postcode? I know about the basic postcode postal town and the area etc. But the last 2 digits for example, who decides upon them?

ukmonkey

Royal Mail decide the postcodes.

The local authority decide (or approve) the name of the road and the house numbers/names, Royal Mail then decide the postcodes.

You need to remember that a postal address may not necessarily be a geographical address, it is merely a routing instruction.

Mail is sorted to the Mail centres (i.e Doncaster) and then to the Delivery Offices (i.e Grimsby), and then to the walk, and then to the house.

So, using the example for a travel agents in Grimsby:

Going Places
57 Victoria Street
GRIMSBY
DN31 1UU

If we break the postcode down into it's two parts, the outcode and the incode; DN31 and 1UU....

DN tells the outward Mail Centre (i.e the Mail Centre for the area where the item was posted) that the item need to go to Doncaster Mail Centre. Job done as far as they're concerned.

Once the item gets to Donny Mail Centre, they will see DN31 and know that it needs to go to Grimsby Delivery Office.

When it gets to Grimsby, it will get sorted onto the walk (the postman's delivery route), in this example it is walk number 22.

The postie that covers walk 22 will then get all the sacks/containers of mail for his walk, and stand and sort them to the individual addresses.

When sorted, he will take the mail out of the slots ("sorting frames") in the order that his walk goes, and put the into bundles and then go out on his delivery walk.

Hope this helps.

p.s Can I just make it 100% clear that I don't live in Grimsby, I was merely citing an example.

adr0ck

royal mail decide the postcode

your county council decides the address (street name etc)

Debt_Free_Chick

adr0ck wrote:

royal mail decide the postcode

your county council decides the address (street name etc)

It isn't the District or Borough Council then?

adr0ck

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

It isn't the District or Borough Council then?

sorry dont know we only have a county council round here i think

p00hbear

Bargain_Rzl wrote:

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:

Which development did you get - mines close by SE15 too...?

adr0ck

sorry being thick its known as a county borough council

still dont know about district councils