A plea from a new postie

[Zingy123]

If you haven't got your door number displayed please get some stick on numbers or a sign. I have recently started working for Royal Mail. I can't believe the amount of doors without numbers on. It's so hard trying to deliver to the right doors a lot of it is guess work.

Other services must struggle too like Ambulances etc.

Thank you

@Potatosaladfiend rose cottage was the code name for the mortuary when I worked in a hospital many years ago! You do see a lot of houses named this though.

We all have our house numbers displayed (some have plaques with the road name on too, for the avoidance of doubt)
10 houses, numbered consecutively 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 - 1-5 on the left hand side of the cul-de-sac and 6-10 on the right.
On Saturday I had to call shout the postie back because we had the mail for the wrong house - she'd done it 1,3,5,7,9 then 10,8,6,4,2 - so either way had stuffed it up.🙄
She was also on the phone the whole time, and I'm guessing the 2 cul-de-sacs before us (which are numbered in the same way) had mail mis-delivered too.
Pity she hadn't looked at the house numbers instead of her phone, and also that she made no attempt to "swap" mail, just took the letters from me (bank & c card statements, tax office) and delivered them properly to my neighbour, then drove off in her van.🤦‍♀️

We used to have a couple of excellent posties, but they must have moved on and we now get different people each time, which is only about 3 deliveries a week.

We also get Morrisons, Asda and the odd takeaway trying to give us and our NDN food as they don't bother to read the street nameplate and satnav around here is a bit odd.🤦‍♀️

Slightly tangential point but I sometimes sell things online and I always double check addresses provided against those held by Royal Mail (on their "find and address" tool). I'm frequently amazed by the number of people who provide an address which does not match the official address held by Royal Mail. No wonder posties struggle!

I used to live on a road that stretched into town different towns. So there was two houses named number 54 street name, with only difference being town name. However I was always getting the post for the other house and vice versa.
I’m always amazed that people don’t have house numbers. As for rural houses, have sign at the entrance of your drive, not just on your house!

Yes we get a lot of misaddressed mail. Covid tests especially where people have to order their own. A lot of postcodes on them are completely wrong.

I've told this on here before.
My parents used to live in a village.
There was one main road with about 3 side streets which were cul de sacs.
None of the streets had names. None of the houses had numbers.
So the addresses were things like
My Cottage
Village Name.

But to add to that, abotu 6 outlying farms also had the same type of address.

and the house names? All of these were literally in the village, I'm not making it up.

The Manor
Village Name Manor
Manor Farm House
Manor Farm Barn
Farm Barn
The Barn
The New Barn
Manor Farm (that was an outlying farm)
New Farm (outlying farm)

Just to add insult to injury, the name of the village was the same as a the name of a large town about 200 miles away.

the only consolation was that if you knocked on any door, they would take you to the right house, as they knew how hard it was.

Our house has a name, not a number. It's incredibly annoying for deliveries. Are those of you who are berating house name havers (!) aware that it's not the owner of the house who makes that decision in most cases?

Oh and conservation area, so the house names are all 'tastfully done' which means carved into stone and therefore invisible in the dark. Or only on house door which is set back from the road, and invisible.

Agree!
Social worker here and the amount of times I've got lost in a rural area because the house name is missing... postie has saved me a few times!

" But the number is on my door!!!"

Yeah.. and the door is down a 30m drive and the number is 2cm high..
Oh.. and there is no outside light..

🤔🤔

Sometimes you cn have a clearly displayed number and the postie never looks at it though. I'm a 'filler' house number (not a newer build, apparently when they built the estate in the 50s they started numbering from either end and counted wrong) so have an 'a' suffix. We can always tell when out postie is on holiday because half the street gets the wrong post and we all have to swap. Regular postie is lovely though!

Too many people just don’t think about it. There should be an awareness campaign about it because it isn’t something on the radar for a lot of people.

We have a large and obvious house number, well lit at night. Not least because with my DS sometimes having prolonged seizures we need an ambulance to find us quickly.

Op- scan, not delivered, incomplete address .
Then return to sorting office, for regular postie the next day.
If feeling particularly angry RTS.
If it’s your regular walk you will get used to it, if it’s not, as above .

There was a big campaign several years ago by the fire brigade about this problem.

I tried to get a number for my house from the council but was told I couldn't - the ay the street is numbered I'd need to be minus 3 main st. - so I stick with the name (2 x large lit house name signs by the way)

In Ireland they've put a new postcode system in where every property has a unique id which seems sensible
www.eircode.ie/

Also as an aside if you have a grey door with three square windows in it and a letterbox at the bottom , you are a Royal Mail meme. And a cunt, and everybody hates you 👍
Also if your going to get a wall box don’t buy the cheapest tiniest one you can find. Get one that’s fit for purpose .

Ugh I need to do this 😑
I'll get it done today 👏🏼

Aaaaand stop leaving bags full of your kids shit on your door step. You dirty bastards. Especially if you have a low letterbox!!!!!

Absolutely agree! I had a paper round when I was at school back in 1843 and then was a postie in the university holidays and couldn’t believe the number of people who don’t have a door number. It only costs a few quid.

We have just a house name and a house next door no one ever seems to realise exists 🙄 It's been there well over 100 years.

I'm sick of picking up elastic bands posties have dropped, very annoying and wasteful.

@NiLunNiLautre

I'd love to be able to put a nice clear number in my door! Unfortunately, there are no street names or numbers where I live. It's a village with only named houses. Quite a big village, though, so people always have trouble finding us and we're forever giving out directions. Pain in the bum.

We have a similar problem and have managed to partially fix it (for people with smart phones) by giving out the what three words location for either our front door or the parking space outside our back gate. It's been a game changer

I worked in a group home once. It was in a road full of similar houses. If you imagine a T shape, you accessed the house by turning left at the top, and you were in Red Road. If you turned right, you were in Blue Road. It was the same road though. One day a man came to do PAT testing of small appliances, and said he'd mistakenly gone to Red Road. An elderly woman had answered the door, and he'd told her he'd come to test all the small appliances and she'd let him in with no question. It was only when he was in there he realised it was a private house and she wasn't a resident of a group home.
In the same town there was a road bisected by a main road. The trouble was, the top part of the road couldn't be accessed from the main road, you had to drive a completely different way to get to it, so the bottom part was numbered to 56, and the top part started at 58. It seemed really random unless you looked at a map, when you could see the correlation between the two roads. It was only when an ambulance couldn't find a sick baby that the council renamed the roads, adding North and South to their names.

@Mysa74 what is this sorcery you speak of? How does one... "what three words"?
Is it an app?

Should have to give What3words location

@SirChenjins 1843??