Why do companies have stupid, long addresses?

[Adenauer]

LordGrover said:

When I were a lad I lived in an ordinary semi. Christened it Rectory Manor.
It was in Rectory Close - on the site of the beautiful old rectory they bulldozed to build the **** houses.

Stone him.

[BHC]

They have addresses according to the premises on which they are sited.

I hope that this assists you in understanding the matter.

[fido]

Thankyou4calling said:

All you need is
ABC ltd
123 long Roads
Then the postcode.

Except no one will think it's theirs to open and bin it.

[Hackney]

grumpy52 said:

Post codes .?????
For business addresses ??
Try finding one on a newish or new estate via postcodes and its fifty fifty you will be in the wrong road .

Post code for one of my customers puts me on the hard shoulder of the M1

[loafer123]

Shaw Tarse said:

I once got a letter

Shaw Tarse

1. # Road

Town

I'd be pretty insulted if the postie worked out which house to deliver to based on my nickname. You must be notably, erm, short.

[rpguk]

The door number and postcode alone should be enough to get the letter to the delivery point. A full post code is linked to only one street after all.

Names, company name, floor or whatever are all of help to get it to the right person within the address.

The rest of the information probably helps the postie out a little but I think they bundle up the letters by street at the sorting office anyway.

Note - I am not a postie and following this advice may lead to missing post!

[FunkyNige]

Tom_C76 said:

Ours is too long for most online ordering forms.

Same here-
Company name
Building name
Business park name
Road name
Another road name (?)
Town
County
Postcode

[vinnie01]

probably an attempt to put off the casual poster ie you want to complain but only halfheartedly the long winded process acts like a spam filter?

[RizzoTheRat]

bennyboydurham said:

My brother lives jn Ireland and it's a bit like that.

His address is:

'Brother and sister in law BBD'
'Very Small town in Ireland'
'Ireland'

I thought they usually have the county in the address too?

A mate managed to have a letter delivered to him that was just addressed to
'Name'
'Guitar Maker'
'Ireland'

[parakitaMol.]

From now I am going to simply put 'Surrey'.

Gosh, I need to check in here more often for these gems.

[Jerry Can]

it's what the PO BOX is for

i.e. John Smith, PO Box 21, London N1 1NN


http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nireland/consumer_ni...

[anonymous-user]

On the topic of addresses, there is a special place in hell reserved for those s who live on a housing estate or a numbered road/street yet remove their house number and give it a name instead.

"Oh I know what we'll do today, let's remove the number 68 from our house and get a beautiful stone plaque engraved with a fancy name instead, that'll definitely make our home more prestigious"

No it won't you fking prat, it will just make you look like a prick to everyone to ever tries to deliver anything to your stty little house.

The people who do this are without exception, wkers, who think they are better than the others in the street.

My mum owns a flower shop that also does furniture and gifts, and as such, I sometimes help out when she's really busy by doing some delivery driving for her, when I'm not doing my 'day job'.

I have wasted many, many, hours over the years looking for houses with a number replaced with a name, and when you are staring down the barrel at an 9 or 10pm finish as it is, it's really annoying as every few minutes per delivery counts.

I had a corker the other week. One of the deliveries (a coffee table) was for something stupid like Holly Cottage, The Highlands, (town name), and my mum pre warned me that The Highlands was a MASSIVE new housing estate that was all numbers, and when she had asked repeatedly on the phone for the number of the house, the woman got really snotty with her and insisted it was 'Holly Cottage' and had no number.

So off I went, and after wasting literally 20 minutes on this estate looking for a name instead of a number, I rang the shop, who rang the customer and told them that we couldn't find their house on the estate, and that we were bringing the delivery back to the shop where they would have to come and pick it up themselves... We'll surprise surprise, the customer then sheepishly said "actually it used to be called 47", and I then found it in 2 minutes.

aholes.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

NinjaPower said:

On the topic of addresses, there is a special place in hell reserved for those s who live on a housing estate or a numbered road/street yet remove their house number and give it a name instead.

"Oh I know what we'll do today, let's remove the number 68 from our house and get a beautiful stone plaque engraved with a fancy name instead, that'll definitely make our home more prestigious"

No it won't you fking prat, it will just make you look like a prick to everyone to ever tries to deliver anything to your stty little house.

The people who do this are without exception, wkers, who think they are better than the others in the street.

My mum owns a flower shop that also does furniture and gifts, and as such, I sometimes help out when she's really busy by doing some delivery driving for her, when I'm not doing my 'day job'.

I have wasted many, many, hours over the years looking for houses with a number replaced with a name, and when you are staring down the barrel at an 9 or 10pm finish as it is, it's really annoying as every few minutes per delivery counts.

I had a corker the other week. One of the deliveries (a coffee table) was for something stupid like Holly Cottage, The Highlands, (town name), and my mum pre warned me that The Highlands was a MASSIVE new housing estate that was all numbers, and when she had asked repeatedly on the phone for the number of the house, the woman got really snotty with her and insisted it was 'Holly Cottage' and had no number.

So off I went, and after wasting literally 20 minutes on this estate looking for a name instead of a number, I rang the shop, who rang the customer and told them that we couldn't find their house on the estate, and that we were bringing the delivery back to the shop where they would have to come and pick it up themselves... We'll surprise surprise, the customer then sheepishly said "actually it used to be called 47", and I then found it in 2 minutes.

aholes.

Exactly this. Annoying at worst for deliveries.

However, working from an emergency bus like I do (an Ambiwlans, natch ) it can be positively life-threataning. And doubly worse at night when it's a struggle to see the fronts of some houses, even using a torch and the Ambo's side flood lights.

I had one only last week. We got to the street. We then drove down it slowly looking for the address. It was all 'The Hollies' this and 'Dunroamin' that.

We ended up driving down to the end, turning round, driving back up, and still failing to find number 65 because no-one had bloody numbers.

We then stopped and radio'd control for some help. They then had to phone the patient back and get their partner to come outside (another bugbear - if there's someone else in the house, then for fk's sake SEND THEM OUTSIDE to flag us down!!)

Once the patient's partner came outside, way back up the road and started waving at us, we drove back down the road an finally parked up. The whole delay was about 5 minutes in total.

When we got inside, his girlfriend was having a chronic asthma attack - it was a pretty bad one, and she was already looking pale :O with asthma, things can worsen pretty bloody quickly, and a 5 minute delay of treatment can make the difference between life and death, simple as that.

We sorted her out and she was fine after treatment, so it was all cool. However, we gave them a gentle bking about the house name thing - especially knowing that she is prone to having the odd bad attack. They promised to screw some big numbers to the front asap! Better late than never I guess

[wildcat45]

BlackST said:

Try sending it to

Persons name
Business Park name
Postcode

and see if it reaches them then

depends how much notice the Postie takes of things. We had one at a business park I worked at and he knew it all, he'd even know when stuff for ex employees, or ones who had moved elsewhere in the group turned up, putting it in a separate elastic band.

[mattley]

BlackST said:

Try sending it to

Persons name
Business Park name
Postcode

and see if it reaches them then

Laugh all you like, this will work fine if the Business has a unique postcode, which many do. and the item is just a packet.

The OP also neglected to add a floor No. to his scenario. Delivering servers or photocopiers can be a nightmare in a shared office building. Floor no. needs to be in delivery address unless your happy with a huge lump of kit dumpd in reception




Name
Company
Postcode

Then you get a huge piece of kit on a pallet dumped in reception, without a floor number on the delivery address this can be a significant issue.

[B17NNS]

blindswelledrat said:

No, its because it's their address you weirdo.

pretty much it.

[Monkeylegend]

Thankyou4calling said:

I very rarely send a letter but when I do you can pretty much guarantee the company I send it to will decide it's not enough to put the number, street and postcode. Oh no it's gotta be

Persons name
Name of company
Such n such building
Street name
Business park name
Town name
City name
Then postcode.

So quite literally it's seven lines for something that really only needs three.

Is it to make them look important? Surely it's not just me.

Or in this case eight lines.

[226bhp]

You want to try sending stuff abroad on a regular basis, it's a 10 minute job researching their addresses in order to make them fit into a parcel companies form.

[Swoxy]

http://www.hopewiser.com/address-search/

[BlackST]

wildcat45 said:

BlackST said:

Try sending it to

Persons name
Business Park name
Postcode

and see if it reaches them then

depends how much notice the Postie takes of things. We had one at a business park I worked at and he knew it all, he'd even know when stuff for ex employees, or ones who had moved elsewhere in the group turned up, putting it in a separate elastic band.

Sounds like a very smart postie

mattley said:

BlackST said:

Try sending it to

Persons name
Business Park name
Postcode

and see if it reaches them then

Laugh all you like, this will work fine if the Business has a unique postcode, which many do. and the item is just a packet.

The OP also neglected to add a floor No. to his scenario. Delivering servers or photocopiers can be a nightmare in a shared office building. Floor no. needs to be in delivery address unless your happy with a huge lump of kit dumpd in reception




Name
Company
Postcode

Then you get a huge piece of kit on a pallet dumped in reception, without a floor number on the delivery address this can be a significant issue.

However if there are a lot of businesses on the business park then I'm sure the postman won't know what company and what unit the employee works in unless the postie has done the round for the past 20 years and knows everybody by name, which I doubt there are many posties that do.