Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

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RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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It doesn't, it's a lat/long based square. 3 or 5 meters a side I think

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
V8mate said:
People who don't have a street number clearly displayed on their property.
Presumably you mean houses that *have* a street number not displaying it? I think that is already a requirement from Royal Mail isn't it?
It is indeed, for those that have one.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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bristolbaron said:
nonsequitur said:
Our village is so posh that there are only house names, no numbers. followed by 'The Street'.bowtie
Roads that only have house names should be forced to have them in alphabetical order-
Ash cottage
Beech house
Cedar view
Etc
Funnily enough...

TheInsanity1234

740 posts

118 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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fatboy18 said:
V8mate said:
People who don't have a street number clearly displayed on their property.

Post-Brexit, I shall be petitioning Priti Patel to bring back the death penalty for such a deed.
100% Agree about this
Some people have a number on their front door but the door may be down the twisty garden path away from the road.
Having done a few delivers in my time, I can tell you it's a nightmare.
Even Shops in High Streets, where sometimes there is a office or something above. There are often no numbers! Delivery takes longer which causes stress to said driver or post person who has probably had to pull up on a yellow line someplace and run back and forth trying to find the entrance.

As a result of having experienced this first hand I have a number on the post roadside and number on the Door. And don't let your hedges grow over the number or name plate rage
The trouble with street numbers is that Royal Mail seem to be useless at updating them, and as a result, at my parents old house, there are 4 or 5 houses that all share one street number!

It's a bit of an odd situation, but what happened was my parents' old house used to be a farm house, with ample land running along a road out of the village, and the house was more or less in the middle of the length of street the land bordered, and it was numbered 4, then consecutive owners sold off small chunks of the street facing land to property developers that wanted to build a house, and then the person who my parents bought had built his new house right next door on the extra bit of land along the street, and since Royal Mail didn't update the street numbering, there is now an odd situation where 4 Newbury Road has about 4 or 5 different houses on it.

To then make the whole situation even more nonsensical, the original houses that were originally on the outskirts of the village before it expanded still hold their original numbers, and then the new ones built next to those have just been numbered, so you can drive down Newbury Road and see numbers 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 all near each other, and then there is no 3, 4, or 5 I think, because they were assigned to plots of land with multiple houses on, distinguished by their names!

ETA: All the previous owners had an annoyingly small name plate right next to the door which was frequently obsecured by cars parked on the drive, so when my parents moved in, my mother (being an arty type) decided to paint a fk off massive sign with a pretty rural scene on it, with the name of the house painted in enormous decorative lettering (the sign was about 3' x 5') and hung it above what used to be the garage entrance (double storey garage extension) as my late grandmother had moved in with my parents and she was very frail and required frequent paramedic visits before she detoriated enough to be put into a care home.

Thanks to her initative, we never had trouble with ambulances finding us, nor delivery drivers.

Edited by TheInsanity1234 on Saturday 24th August 15:57

Clockwork Cupcake

74,402 posts

271 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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To confuse matters even more, my house and my next door neighbour's house both pre-date house numbers on the road they are on - they have never had a number. Then years later, new houses were built starting at 1 and going upwards. So if you were to retrospectively assign numbers to our houses they would have to be 0 and -1. Or else you would have to renumber all the houses on the road.

So, yes, I agree that houses that have numbers should prominently display them (and, as I said, I think that is a requirement by Royal Mail) but it's impractical to force numbers onto houses that have never had them.




talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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My address has 2 road names on it.

Number,my road
road name that my road T’s off
Village
Town
Postcode.

Edited by talksthetorque on Saturday 24th August 20:00

loudlashadjuster

5,082 posts

183 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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talksthetorque said:
My address has 2 road names on it.

  1. ,my road
road name that my road T’s off
Village
Town
Postcode.
Unless you live in a *very* rural area I'm surprised at that in this day and age. I worked a lot with RM and postcodes a few years back for bulk mail injection and doing a lot of address validation and cleansing. Millions of addresses. Almost exclusively, matching failures were occasions where people were using archaic or deprecated versions of their actual, current address. A lot of Middlesexes!

Fun fact; the system that CC advocates - an extension to the normal outbound and inbound postcode system that unique identifies a specific address - does exist, but it's not available to the general public. Even that has limitations and constraints though.

Just believe me when I say that, as someone who had to do similar work across the world, the UK system is miles better than most other countries' solutions.

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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loudlashadjuster said:
talksthetorque said:
My address has 2 road names on it.

  1. ,my road
road name that my road T’s off
Village
Town
Postcode.
Unless you live in a *very* rural area I'm surprised at that in this day and age. I worked a lot with RM and postcodes a few years back for bulk mail injection and doing a lot of address validation and cleansing. Millions of addresses. Almost exclusively, matching failures were occasions where people were using archaic or deprecated versions of their actual, current address. A lot of Middlesexes!

Fun fact; the system that CC advocates - an extension to the normal outbound and inbound postcode system that unique identifies a specific address - does exist, but it's not available to the general public. Even that has limitations and constraints though.

Just believe me when I say that, as someone who had to do similar work across the world, the UK system is miles better than most other countries' solutions.
I do believe it should be made Law for all premises and Homes to clearly display a Number.
Even in old High Streets, Shop frontages and office blocks must clearly display a number.

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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fatboy18 said:
I do believe it should be made Law for all premises and Homes to clearly display a Number.
Even in old High Streets, Shop frontages and office blocks must clearly display a number.
It is law for all of those that have a number. Not all premises have a number allocated.

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Saturday 24th August 2019
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Vaud said:
fatboy18 said:
I do believe it should be made Law for all premises and Homes to clearly display a Number.
Even in old High Streets, Shop frontages and office blocks must clearly display a number.
It is law for all of those that have a number. Not all premises have a number allocated.
Well in that case most major high street shops are breaking it! Try to find a number on a Sainsburys local or Boots Chemist etc....Now you may think the package would be addressed to said shop but sometimes its just a number on a High st!

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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fatboy18 said:
I do believe it should be made Law for all premises and Homes to clearly display a Number.
Even in old High Streets, Shop frontages and office blocks must clearly display a number.
Any particular one? I would go for 9, nice and rounded.hehe

Vaud

50,289 posts

154 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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fatboy18 said:
Well in that case most major high street shops are breaking it! Try to find a number on a Sainsburys local or Boots Chemist etc....Now you may think the package would be addressed to said shop but sometimes its just a number on a High st!
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/...
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/...

Since 1847... Fineable (£25). I suspect they just accept the risk and pay if ever asked. At £25, my guess is councils don't enforce as the fine would outweigh the cost of even issuing the paperwork.

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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nonsequitur said:
fatboy18 said:
I do believe it should be made Law for all premises and Homes to clearly display a Number.
Even in old High Streets, Shop frontages and office blocks must clearly display a number.
Any particular one? I would go for 9, nice and rounded.hehe
haha tongue out

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Must be a nightmare for some of those Food Delivery drivers, not only do they risk getting mugged but trying to find a place in the dark frown

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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V8mate said:
People who don't have a street number clearly displayed on their property.

Post-Brexit, I shall be petitioning Priti Patel to bring back the death penalty for such a deed.


I wish people could look at street signs and house numbers rather than relying on satnav. Even though my house number is clear from the road the satnav takes people to a parallel road

leigh1050

2,372 posts

164 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Drivers on a n.s.l. road going 20m.p.h. below the limit!

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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People and/or organisations who describe their activity as 'working tirelessly'.

Almost inevitably representing the kind of person/people who wouldn't know hard work if kicked them up the arse.

Clockwork Cupcake

74,402 posts

271 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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V8mate said:
People and/or organisations who describe their activity as 'working tirelessly'.

Almost inevitably representing the kind of person/people who wouldn't know hard work if kicked them up the arse.
Like most people who work in the Public Sector? wink

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Sunday 25th August 2019
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