On 2007-11-20 15:05:38 +0000, Peter Johnson
said:

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:33:08 -0800 (PST), Lobster
wrote:


Seems highly plausible... I once renovated a property which had fallen
off the postcode database (having been absorbed into next door), and
although I went through all the right channels to get it re-instated
when the property became 'stand-alone' again, during the intervening
months before it reappeared on every database, I had a hell of a job
when it came to getting services connected and having anything
delivered.

"Sorry sir, that address doesn't exist"

"I'm b********* standing in it!"


c1984 I moved into a new-build house and hand delivered the change of
address details, including post code, to my branch of NatWest (now
closed and abandoned because all the other local banks have already
been converted to bars etc and no-one can work out how to make money
out of another one). A few weeks later I was advised that my (new)
mortgage direct debit had failed. It seems that in those pre-internet
days someone at NatWest had checked the address in the post code
directory and, not finding it because it was too new, had changed it
to a similar one 15 miles away. When my bank statements were returned
'not at this address' a stop had been put on the account. Result -
very fulsome and abject apology from the bank.

No cash?