Yes, this is one thing I love about the UK compared to NZ. My first postcode here pointed right to the apartment building I was in, so it was essentially: 9, W

Yes, this is one thing I love about the UK compared to NZ. My first postcode here pointed right to the apartment building I was in, so it was essentially: 9, WXXXX. Now my postcode points to the group of flat buildings I'm in and is now 8, NXXXXX. Obviously things get a tiny bit looser as you leave less populated/central areas but it's still a really neat system, but as per usual it's corrupted by UK's history, things being added in etc and it's not based on any sort of co-ordinates beyond compass/regions. Would be amazing to see a grid based co-ordinate system that could be adopted as an international standard over time. Then again it does lose the character of the full address/street name (which is something important to people from the UK).