Royal Mail to Abolish Counties
Well not quite, but they are going to remove the county line from addresses.
Just out of curiousity I looked up the address of their ground on Ipswich Town’s Web Site.
Ipswich Town Football Club
Portman Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 2DA
United Kingdom
So it would only mean one line disappears in this case, but I suspect there are few in the UK, who don’t know that Ipswich is in the County of Suffolk. Incidentally, there are people in Suffolk, who would say that Ipswich is in the County of East Suffolk, which was merged with West Suffolk to form Suffolk in 1972, when Ipswich lost the County Borough status it had gained in 1888.
So the address of Ipswich Town, if the pre-1972 rules applied woiuld now be exactly the same as the Royal Mail is now proposing.
Ipswich Town Football Club
Portman Road
Ipswich
IP1 2DA
United Kingdom
So it might not make much difference to many here in Suffolk, but I can imagine that others might be not so relaxed about it.
What annoys me about addreses, is that I moved here nearly twenty years ago and my bank still haven’t got the new address on my statement correct. But the Royal Mail usually gets it delivered correctly.
So does it all matter? No!
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