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The example of "GB Technical Services, Unit W7a, Warwick House, 18 Forge Lane, Minworth Industrial Park, Minworth, Sutton Coldfield, B76 1AH, United Kingdom" co
by jzwinck 13y ago
The example of "GB Technical Services, Unit W7a, Warwick House, 18 Forge Lane, Minworth Industrial Park, Minworth, Sutton Coldfield, B76 1AH, United Kingdom" could still reasonably be written within five lines this way:
GB Technical Services
Unit W7a, Warwick House, 18 Forge Lane
Minworth Industrial Park, Minworth
Sutton Coldfield, B76 1AH, United Kingdom
I don't think British people would actually write it as eight lines. Does anyone have a better example of an address that does not reasonably/conventionally fit on five freeform lines?
- pm215 13y agoYou could compress it a bit, but the standard is to write the postcode and the country name on lines of their own, and usually the post town too (that's "Sutton Coldfield" here). So trying to compress down to five lines would require really weird formatting (and possibly confuse the automatic postcode-reading hardware). (http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/How-do-I-address-my-mail-correctly http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/How-do-I-... specifically wants postcode on a line of its own.)
- JamesAcorn 13y agoYou could get away addressing that as: GB Technical Services Unit W7a Warwick House 18 Forge Lane B76 1AH The postcode effectively encodes the post town and county. It may not be easily 'human readable' but Royal Mail will deliver it no problems.