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I'd agree with you to some extent but postcodes (the UK equivalent of ZIP codes) were actually introduced before ZIP was in the US. If you were given an address

by mintone 11y ago

I'd agree with you to some extent but postcodes (the UK equivalent of ZIP codes) were actually introduced before ZIP was in the US. If you were given an address in 'rural England' like that at any point in the past >40 years then it was most likely the addressees choice rather than the actual postal system. The postcode also makes everything apart from the number irrelevant in the eyes of the post office - you can address items to 10, GL10 2AB and it will end up where it needs to go.

bane 11y ago
> it was most likely the addressees choice That's good to know. I believe there was a post code (this exchange happened about 10 years ago). I recall there's been several interesting exchanges over rights access to the postal code locations in the U.K. as internet mapping started to become more prevalent. I think this finally changes ~2009/2010? At least it finally happened, but I cannot fathom the thought process that would have made a campaign necessary to force the release of basic location data.