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On the move
No one is surprised that the postcode file is incomplete, but you are not helping: ‘No one can find our house either because we moved the entrance round the corner into the next street,’ says John Batty at JMJ Bulk Packaging.
But it is not that simple. ‘According to the sign at the end of the road it is Short Drove, but according to Autoroute and my SatNav it is Church Street. All attempts to reregister the address over five years have been futile, so all retail look-ups have us in Vicarage Close.’
When John wants a delivery, he has to call and say that he no longer lives in Vicarage Close. He lives in Short Drove. Or Church Street. Luckily, he lives opposite the post office.
And when Clive Tiney was creating a web site for his local church, he discovered it did not have a letter box, nor a postcode, and so according to Multimap there is ‘a 50-metre black hole on the south side of Haxby’. If you are looking to disappear, taking refuge in a church suddenly makes sense.
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