"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2007-05-01, Andy Dingley wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:26:01 +0100, PL wrote:

I thought the Local Authority was responsible
for street naming and numbering and that the PO was, perhaps, just a
consultee in the process.

It is. However no-one these days cares about what the place is really
called, they care about what the PO has called it in the PAF. If you're
not in the PO's database, then you no longer exist.

Or if it's wrong in the PAF, you're screwed. Apart from living in
a house with no number off a lane with no name, the PAF is wrong for
our house. The address should be;

{house name}
{street name}
{village name}
{nearbye town}
{county}

But they omit the village, causing enormous confusion. It's a wonder
we ever get any mail at all,

You obviously believe thatt 'where_I_ Live' is the reason for the PAF data;
however that's _not_ its purpose -the PAF is actually 'How does the RM
deliver something to my house' data.
The two sets of data -referring, to one house, - are different; compiled for
different reasons.

[In my case, I live approx 400 yards from the county border. I pay my
'county' taxes to the county council somewere about fifty miles away, as far
as they're concerned my address is $town, $County - but to the PAF it's
$next-door-(postal sorting)-town; $Next-door-county.]

It's a mistake to think that your 'postal address' should bear any relevance
to geography. However for the majority of the population its 'close enough
for government work'!

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Brian