Comments on: Postcodes: Adam Crozier letter

By: R Phillips

R Phillips — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:37:30 +0000

i HAVE LOOKED FOR POSTCODES ON THE COMPUTER AND THE INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE AND THE HOUSE HAS BEEEN THERE FOR YEARS WITH THE TOWN BUT IT ALSO SAYS Cambridge does not exist eather

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By: D Read

D Read — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:09:30 +0000

Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey have it all sewn up. Even local councils can’t tell you where their boundaries are with other councils without you agreeing to a restrictive license!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:31:55 +0000

Given this file was created by public money it should be publically accessible. It seems to all be part of the Royal Mail’s privatisation by the back door courtesy of Mr Mandelson (a very powerful minister in government who hasn’t been elected – but hey that’s another story). Please keep the pressure on, Tom.

By: bill finnegan

bill finnegan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:35:13 +0000

In the US online zipcode lookup is provided by USPS – http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/
The same service should be provided in UK by Post Office – surely its in their interest that customers use the correct code

By: Josephine

Josephine — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:02:54 +0000

I am the partner of a Royal Mail worker in a Bristol Depot, and i’m sure I am speaking on behalf of all those with striking parners.
It would be so easy to get the postmen back out on their rounds, give them the pay rise they deserve, it makes me so angry that while top bosses get huge salaries and bonuses, backed up by safe pensions, my partner who works hard at grass roots, who, ironically pays your lousy bonuses, gets nothing, ages ago promises of better pay, and conditions were going to be enforced, now you have gone back on your words and wonder why they are striking.
Your money is safe, but because of your selfishness my partner has had to strike, in the meantime Royal Mail are losing customers, and they wonder why.
How can you live with your consciences knowing all you top bosses are safe, you can afford all lifes luxuries, at my partners expense, yet they are all struggling, you have not only stopped payrises, but they are working longer hours for a pittance, in all winds and weathers, and even told to walk faster.
You should be ashamed of the way you treat them.
Not only that your bonuses are tax-free and ludicrously high, my partner, who has already paid tax, is then taxed on a pitifull £200 bonus, how can you justify that? is beyond me.
Your postmen are worth their weight in gold, but to you they are dispensable, you are all greedy, self loving and selfish.
The only way to get them back out on their rounds, is better pay and conditions, tax free bonuses over a thousand, and reduce your own to pay them, since they need it more than you, it is as ELEMETARY as that.

Josephine Lewis

By: Philip Hunt

Philip Hunt — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:35:39 +0000

What can I say other than “I agree”? Tom, your talents are wasted in the Labour Party, come and join the Pirate Party instead.

By: Mike Saunt

Mike Saunt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:17:12 +0000

All,

It is strange that in these times it is better to go to the USA providers to get UK information that to providers in the UK.

I am talking here about Yahoo and their GeoPlanet set of web services. All anyone needs to is sign up to get a developer ID and then you have access to the postcodes for FREE without limit on use – strange but true and really shows how providers such as the Royal Mail (also think Ordnance Survey) aren’t quite up to speed with the Internet age.

The following link will allow this

Have you tried the FREE to USE GeoPlanet from YAHOO? This has postcodes that can be used

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/index.html

This will solve the problems for all your clients / websites

Thanks and I hope this helps
Mike

By: Anthony Cartmell

Anthony Cartmell — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:16:49 +0000

My suggestion is that we continue to build the open postcode database at http://www.npemap.org.uk/ with the assistance of postmen, who, presumably, know where each postcode is on the map. They would provide this information in a personal capacity, of course, for the areas they know about (they, like anyone, can read the postcodes from the addressed envelopes they are delivering).

The alternative, crowd-sourcing people to rummage in bins to find postcodes, would be much messier…

By: Steve E

Steve E — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:10:02 +0000

Since when has the Royal Mail owned my house? When I bought it it had a Post Code allocated to it. Does this mean that everytime I give the Post Code to someone (to be used as an example on their SatNav) I ought to pay the Royal Mail a royalty?
Come on Royal Mail, get real. All I want is public information about things happening in my area.