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Edinburgh is awesome, in particular, for the way that flats can be numbered within buildings. I used to live in flat on the top floor which received mail as ei
by stevekemp 3y ago
Edinburgh is awesome, in particular, for the way that flats can be numbered within buildings.
I used to live in flat on the top floor which received mail as either "TFL" (for top-floor, flat on the left", or "Flat 6". Different companies used different formats for the address.
I'd lived in GFL "ground-floor, flat left" and "GFR" for "Ground-floor, flat-right" as well. But never in a middle floor. I assume they would be MFL and MFR respectively. But who knows?
- mcdee 3y agoThey use 1FL/1FR for first floor, 2FL/2FR for second floor, etc.
- zabzonk 3y agowhen i lived in edinburgh in the 70s, we would just stick a card on the flat door with the surnames of the inhabitants on it - the flats themselves did not have numbers.
- NeoTar 3y agoThat is pretty much how it works in Germany - flats are identified by resident surname, and numbers, if they exist, are not known or little used.
- fellerts 3y agoNorwegian apartments are all identified by a single letter and four numbers. For example, H0203 means 2nd floor, 3rd apartment from the left as seen when ascending the stairs. The H means "main floors" (as opposed to the loft or cellar). Very useful when visiting other apartments.
- orangewindies 3y agoFlats on floors in between usually have the floor number as the first part: "3FL" for third floor on the left or "2F3" for second floor, third flat. Or at least that's how it was when I lived in Edinburgh in the 90s.
- ggm 3y agoHere's a recent reddit thread on the problems of post and delivery services, and the address format for tenements. It discusses 'royal mail' vs 'council format' and the PAF https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/16rpbsc/different_flat_address_formats_in_edinburgh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/16rpbsc/differen...