trivial amusement of the week...

[Paul Leyland]

Alec scribbled: 

> something I discovered (...well, it's almost friday...)
> 
> 	1) go to: http://www.royalmail.com/paf/  (the postcode 
> translator)
> 
> 	2) into "The Address Finder", feed the postcode obtained from:
> 
> 		http://www.uk-dso.odedodea.edu/menwith/
> 
> 	3) fail to be surprised at the result "no address found".
> 
> ...assuming that this is not a cockup, it makes one wonder what other
> "unpublished" postcodes exist, whether they are covered by the OSA,
> what restrictions the royal-mail operates under, what'd happen if the
> post got deregulated, etc...

A few years ago, I believe, I posted to this very list that sundry postcodes
in the GL52 range were located quite a long way from where this tool puts
them.  At that time, I didn't make the mischievous suggestion that the
distance involved was somewhat larger than the blast radius of a typical
tactical nuke.  Of course, that's entirely mischievous as I'm sure that
those organizations capable of throwing nukes around know where GL52 is
located much more precisely than is strictly necessary.

Paul