Vent - My road doesn't exist!

POPPYOSCAR

I tried to get some info from EON about changing tariffs but according to the system my address does not exist even though I have an online account with them in that address, and they supply electricity to that address, and all my bills are in that address!!

Helix

Some couriers with self employed drivers, don't provide mobile phones so therefore drivers would have to use their own. So its understandable that they don't, they shouldn't lie about attempting though.

MamaMoo_2

Helix wrote: »

Some couriers with self employed drivers, don't provide mobile phones so therefore drivers would have to use their own. So its understandable that they don't, they shouldn't lie about attempting though.

The courier I have from My Hermes is lovely. She knows the area well and has never had an issue finding the place.
The company delivering are UKMail who, AFAIK, employ their drivers. However, surely they knew that the odd mobile call would be part of their job, and would just do it? Seems a bit lazy really. A mobile call would also probably have been cheaper than having to make two attempts to deliver a parcel. Silly driver.

shortdog

MamaMoo wrote: »

I just think that by now, 13 months after I moved in, that maps etc would have been updated

There's plenty of time yet - my house is unfindable by most sat-navs and google maps, etc. I'm not sure why, really, as it's been here for almost 300 years...:rotfl:

bod1467

My street is on the Tom Tom maps ... with completely the wrong name!

What's even more weird is that until this estate was built 16 years ago (and was named as per the current, correct name) this street didn't even exist - it was a farmer's field! :rotfl:

Mylo_The_Moggy

Last year i was out with my friend & we went into Next. She ordered some stuff & had to to give her address. They asked for her postcode first & when they typed it into their system it said it didn't exist & was she sure that she had givenb the right postcode!
Weird cos she's lived there 5 years & the cottage is quite old, so i think she'd notice if her house wasn't there! Apparently this wasn't the first time she's been told it 'doesn't exist'.
It appears on Google maps but fails to register on systems that aquire postcodes/your address. Strange indeed.......:cool:

MrsPBikerChick

Our road is on maps but its one where there are communal car parks in the middle which the actual houses lead off of in short rows. They've got number labels in the ends of the rows saying which numbers are on that row so in theory should be easy to navigate. Not, apparently, if you're a postie (we're number 11 and have had mail for all the numbers between 4 and 17, but I think ours is just a lazy so and so) or a Chinese takeout delivery person, who I had to actually leave the house and physically direct to the right bit of the road because he couldn't figure out that number 11 was on the row marked 8-13 not the one marked 43-48!

jumpedtheshark

OP, I feel your frustration. I once got declined for a mobile phone contract on the basis that my address didn't exist. Royal Mail had rezoned my house from one village to another, changing the postcode along the way and all record of it disappeared. I even went in to one of the phone provider's shops with my driving license to try and prove my address, but they just refused because I wasn't in their address 'system' so I had to get my contract from elsewhere.

notanewuser

MamaMoo wrote: »

Unfortunately not. I'm a stay at home mom and my husband's job is non-office based.
I just think that by now, 13 months after I moved in, that maps etc would have been updated

Also, Nile, I always put my number on as I know my house, even if it were mapped, is a bit sneaky to find (it's part of four houses set back from the rest of the road with no direction from the main road, and our part of the road is block paved, so the entrance makes it look like it is someone's private driveway) however the courier, despite saying he called me, most definitely did not

These days, most courier companies and RM get here no problem, but some are just plain useless!

Our house is 10 years old and still doesn't show up on all maps. We have trouble with certain delivery companies.

The major road that was built 3 years ago here still doesn't appear on most sat navs.

judyjetson

Our street has two postcodes - the council and Royal Mail ones are different, only one letter different at the end. Our house was built over 100 years ago. Nobody can ever find us, despite the fact we're on a main road.