ANYone able to help?

theonlywayisup

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

I think it's possible houses have hidden numbering and road names.

A previous house of mine only had a name and there was no road name.
Every drop down box, absolutely every listing everywhere backed this up.

My address was VillageName Manor, VillageName, County.
The house was hundreds of years old and never had another name.

But once, I got a letter with my name on it addressed to a house number and a road name that I'd never heard of but it clearly geographically referenced my road.

So my house had actually been assigned a number and road name but it just hadn't been used before (and I never saw it again).

Just because you once got a letter with a house number on doesn't mean your house was allocated a number, which seems to be the sticking point in this thread.

That said. My house is hundreds of years old but until we converted it, it was never inhabited. We had to apply to the council to have our chosen name agreed. Once done the council informed us of our address - as we have no street/road name - and the Royal Mail wrote to us confirming it had been added to their database as X House, Town Some Distance Away, Postcode.

savinghru

LOL blimey this has taking an interesting turn.


Anyway about my question: I took your advice lovinituk...the reply within 5 days from royal mail was this:
[FONT=&quot]I can confirm our Postcode Address File (PAF) has now been amended from ** to **:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Our postcodes on-line service at www.royalmail.com will reflect this within 2 working days, although corrections/additions to our database can take several months to filter through to end users of Postcode Address File data.We have no jurisdiction over how often external companies update their databases.If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact us on the below telephone number.[/FONT]

Gers is correct and this also applies to where we live... our postcode covers several properties along a main A road (in the middle of nowhere) as well as neighbouring properties down single track roads ...delivery companies can not use satnav here , they will take you to another property a mile away if followed. We quite often get calls saying “I’ve arrived at this abandoned building where are you” and we need to direct them to our property. It simply will not take you to our house. Remember it is a new build! We are very fortunate that we have the same postie covering a large area who knows us all well so for general post that is not the issue, if our name is on the post then he knows where to deliver it.


Relating to the house numbers: We live on a croft, the croft has a name: not a number. The croft house is called the same name as the croft it sits on. We built a new house on the same croft therefore had to call our house something else. So that argument is moot in our situation.


The problem I find frustrating and what led to my original question is the drop down databases on sites that continue to insist you put in your postcode and then you chose you house from that list...Our house is incorrectly spelt on these lists.


Recently on renewing my driving licence which incidentally had the correct house name written on it (10 years ago), the DVLA website has the wrong house name on their new database...I changed the house name in the relevant box and now have a new driving licence for 10 years with the wrong AND the correct house name on it.



Absolutely ridiculous! I was unable to put in the postcode and delete the incorrect house name!


Drspa4 .I have just tried your suggestion and yes it is now correct on the royal mail site.


It is however still Incorrect on other sites that use this dropdown method.


I fear I am going to have to email each company that shows the wrong house name to update their database for future online forms.


Thanks all for your replies, it’s been an interesting debate

Oh just as an afterthought....our council tax / rates bills etc has the CORRECT house name on it. So contacting the council for our area is no use as they already have it listed correctly.

hollydays

Don't these sites allow you to imput the address manually also?

abercrombie2014

savinghru wrote: »

I also had the same issue myself renewing my driving licence and now have on the automatic form the correct house name and the wrong house name as there was no way of deleting the incorrect one.

I just want to mention, if you haven't already you should also check your credit file. I moved into a new build and had an issue where the address was formatted differently across different systems. My credit file was recording me at different addresses that were all the same address, so I had to contact the credit agency to get it cleaned up.

savinghru

hollydays wrote: »

Don't these sites allow you to imput the address manually also?

No not all of them unfortunately...and especially not the DVLA website as I found out when I got my new card...both house names are on it now..the correct and the incorrect one :{

savinghru

abercrombie2014 wrote: »

I just want to mention, if you haven't already you should also check your credit file. I moved into a new build and had an issue where the address was formatted differently across different systems. My credit file was recording me at different addresses that were all the same address, so I had to contact the credit agency to get it cleaned up.

Cheers I'll try that as well, thank you

KittenChops

ARandomMiser wrote: »

All you generally need is the post code and the house number. The street, city, county and anything else is just there to help the postman. If you have given your house a name then that is totally irrelevant as are townlands and other elements that some people include in their address.

All that is important is that the delivery companies can find the address and hand over the items.

abercrombie2014 wrote: »

I just want to mention, if you haven't already you should also check your credit file. I moved into a new build and had an issue where the address was formatted differently across different systems. My credit file was recording me at different addresses that were all the same address, so I had to contact the credit agency to get it cleaned up.

I used to manually underwrite personal loan applications - so I'd go through the applicant's credit file and assess whether or not we should approve the loan. Where people (or more likely the companies who had credit checked them) had entered variants of a single address, these were often processed as 'linked addresses.' So someone could have their credit history split between 3 different (as far as the system could tell) addresses at the same point in time - which to an automated credit checker could, at best, look like inconsistency or, at worst, like fraud.