What Is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible?

Re:What Is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible? by burnt-croissant on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:36PM (#35003073)

I think this is commonly known due to address finders online for shopping etc. providing autofill based on these two items.

However, I would be more interested to understand how the address is used by the postman delivering the mail.

If you have just a post code, do they have to look up the street name (how?) or is it already pre-organised for them so they know that stack/bag X of letters all corresponds to street Y and so they only really need to look at the door number?

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Re:What Is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible? by chipsa on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:54PM (#35004347)

It’s a sorting of all the mail to the mail carrier level, so yes, they do only need to look at the door number. Similarly the ZIP+4 in the US will give down to some fraction of the mail carrier’s route, that they can then sort to a monotonically increasing delivery point number, that is where the carrier actually stops. A full barcode includes the delivery point, but it’s not usually included on the written address.

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