Royal Mail plans to drop counties like Kent from official postal addresses
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County names including Kent could soon be dropped from
official postal addresses.
It follows complaints by customers to the postal watchdog
Postcomm about the continued use of
obsolete places like Sussex, Cleveland and Avon.
The postal service only requires a house number, street name and
postcode to make a delivery.
The
Daily Telegraph says the Royal Mail will start deleting
county names from its Postal Address File - a database of
all 23 million UK addresses - in 2013. They could be
phased out entirely by 2016.
Ian Beesley, chairman of the board that advises the Royal
Mail on the running of the database, told the newspaper that county
names had become an unnecessary "vanity attachment".
He added: "People will still use counties but for postal
purposes you don't need it."
Saturday, July 31 2010
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