Why do companies have stupid, long addresses?

[Thankyou4calling]

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.

[Thankyou4calling]

All you need is

ABC ltd
123 long Roads
Then the postcode.

It'll get there. It's over complicating the issue.

My post only has that, doesn't mention the name of the house, the area, the village or town.

[Thankyou4calling]

Tom_C76 said:

Ours is too long for most online ordering forms.
Building is subdivided so first line is the part of the building.
Building has a name not a number.
Street name.
Village name as it's a rural location.
Post town so they know which sorting office.
County and Postcode.

None of it can really be left out, though to a machine system the company name and postcode might suffice.

Leave out

Village name
Post town
County

With the street name and Post code the rest isn't required.

[Thankyou4calling]

Symbolica said:

I think we can be fairly sure that it is.

Read the responses mate and you can see quite clearly that it isn't :-)