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Philip Newton writes: > English addresses are especially infamous for occasionally requiring > six or more rows of address. Seems reasonable enough to me: Flat NN Building Name NN Street Name Locality POSTTOWN County Postcode I've recently moved back to Edinburgh. My address here is nice and short: 28/3 Street Name Edinburgh Postcode It's the "28/3" bit that gets people. It's actually fairly sensible: the building is number 28 on my street, and I'm in flat 3 in the building. It's a common pattern round here, so if you need to give your address to someone local, they know exactly what you mean if you say "twenty-eight three". But people in national call centres are always baffled. "Twenty-eight slash three, Street Name." "Twenty-eight flat three?" "No, just a slash character -- a diagonal line." "Really?" "Yes, really. Use your postcode address lookup; it's in the list you get." Fortunately, I haven't yet encountered a website I might want to buy things from that would mangle it to "283 Street Name". -- Aaron CraneThere's stuff above here
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