Neighbours have numbered their house…

I once tried to get a package delivered to me at work, at an incredibly famous location, and the courier 'couldn't find it'. I wonder if What Three Words could have helped then?

I've never used WTW by the way and it does seem to be quite poor at recognising house names, based on my own efforts just now. I'm assuming that the emergency services use it if you supply the words as otherwise it might not be much help - I know they do use it but it's quite random!

But the ‘system’ in place isn’t a system. It’s just a series of probably irrelevant words. It’s no less confusing than ‘1’. It can be very hard and slow to find a house without a number. I’d rather be a random number than a name, at least it’s clear and easy to identify for all languages

Do you get a lot of misdirected parcels? 😁

Yes agree.

I just looked and it doesn’t recognise my address at all
Why is that?

@StandingSideBySide I always direct people to just by the central arch - then they will either be presented to me😂 or arrested

The emergency services go by the street records, so will know the old name of the house and its location - they use postcodes or What Three Words in locations where the street numbering is not straightforward. They will NOT know that the house is now 'number one' so this is another issue created by unilaterally renaming your home.

I think you're just looknig at the first place it takes you if you don't put PIPs 3 words in

The link on the post takes you to Oxford - but it's a different three words. The three words mentioned in the post are Buckingham Palace. Neither of them is the poster's home.

But the police/ ambulance/ delivery driver has probably never been to the house, so nothing other than a logical number or extremely obvious name makes sense. The neighbour is trying to do something that makes sense at least. OP is being thoroughly puerile sending neighbour’s post back when she could just pop it through the letter box. Let’s hope she never needs the neighbours!

Is the road adopted or not?

If the road is adopted then it is down to the local council to put up a road sign (they are required by law to do this).

If the road is unadopted then I'm not entirely sure where the responsibility lies. I think the local are still responsible but I'm not sure.

OP, yanbu to return or not accept anything that is not for you or your address.
I wouldn't engage with them further, just return everything.
Their problem.
Typical CF behaviour.

Sent me to Oxford….or am I missing the BP sarcasm?

Blimey it’s taken me to Oxford, lots of trees, nice view, lovely!

Well if nothing else this is beautifuly highlighting the potential probelms with what 3 words!

It takes me to Warsaw, near a nice coffee shop!(or have I got a different three words?!

😂😂
Should've checked before posting!

@StandingSideBySide - it's buckingham palace!

Are you on / under the bridge then?

Thanks for your concern @BillStickersWillBeProsocuted . Fortunately, we have really good security here so I am not worried 😂

Although that location is on a bridge, just, and not within 3 metres of a property.
Unless they are living under the arches of course

"Is it illegal though?"

Yes, it is. Under the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 and the Public Health Act 1925 only the local council can decide what name to give roads and what number to give houses.

It is an offence subject to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale (currently £200) if you pull down your house number or put up a different one.

It is also an offence not to renew the number if it becomes obliterated or defaced.

It would appear that OP's neighbour has not made an application to the council and "doing so adhoc" is not legal either.

Well, no, because by doing this, you raise an expectation that all the other houses have numbers too. And because the OP's house is the first visible house, that her house must be Number One. You're not introducing a new system if all the other houses don't have numbers, and you're not giving your house a useful name. You're also not using the name that is listed by the local authority and the Post Office. You've created the worst of all worlds.

Going to go out on a limb here, and say unlikely their address 😅

If I'm wrong - I'm sorry Ma'am!

Not if 'Cat' 'Dog' 'Potato' etc had been in that village / on that lane for 150+ years and has had deliveries to it for decades.

Everyone locally knows where 'Cat', random village, somerset is as it's on Google / Waze / internet etc - it's on an official register. If it's still hard to find you can use www.what 3words.com

None of this is Op's responsibility. Her neighbours should stop being annoying and officially register the house and see if the council approves it

The link you gave says word for word ‘If you’ve received mail which has your address, but not your name, this is because we deliver to addresses rather than names. If this does happen, you can put a cross through the address and write 'Not known at this address' or 'No longer lives here' and put it back in a postbox. Where possible, we’ll return the item to the sender hopefully allowing them to update their records.’

The second alternative is ‘If you’ve received mail which isn’t in your name or your address, we're really sorry we've made this mistake and inconvenienced you. We'd like to get the item to the intended recipient as soon as possible and would greatly appreciate your help. Please post the item when you can, you won't need to apply any postage, we’ll then process and deliver it to the correct address.’. This isn’t appropriate because the address is not correct - which isn’t. Royal Mails’ fault because OP’s neighbour has appropriated a wrong house number. So OP will just get the same piece of mail back. All of which is exactly what I said.

Normally I think people on here are bit werid about not every giving out real names and stuff, but you've just put your exact location on here - I'd take that off if I were you!