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UK postcodes are usually _extremely_ specific. One postcode per road or even block is very normal.
by madeofpalk 3y ago
UK postcodes are usually _extremely_ specific. One postcode per road or even block is very normal.
- gkedzierski 3y agoEven more so. Some buildings I lived in had several postcodes. (e.g. some apartments in the building had one postcode assigned, and others had a different one)
- NeoTar 3y ago[According to Wikipedia] the aim is to have one post-code per fifteen addresses. Which means that unlike (5 digit) ZIP codes and German Postal codes, UK Postcodes are typically pretty useful for navigation - people will often enter a postcode into a Sat-Nav to reach a home or business. However, sometimes this can entirely fail - e.g. for a historic house on a large estate which may have access some hundreds of meters away from the postcode indicated location, and so sometimes you'll see a separate postcode to put into your Sat-Nav !
- Perenti 3y agoIn contrast, the 0872 postcode in Australia covers over a million square kilometers.
- defrost 3y agoSuch that the 229km each way Finke Desert Race (Alice Springs <--> Aputula) has the same postcode all the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDI7GejJSjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDI7GejJSjk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finke_Desert_Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finke_Desert_Race https://post-code.net.au/postcode/0872/ https://post-code.net.au/postcode/0872/