Good Old Royal Mail

[longshot]

I had a letter drop through the letterbox today which is addressed to a place called the inch in Edinburgh.

I live over 300 miles away from it's intended destination and the only thing the 2 addresses have in common is the house number.
Post code is completely and utterly different.

Quite impressive really.
If you're going to get it wrong, push the boat out.

Any ideas how they could have got it so very wrong?

It was posted in Edinburgh btw.

[OvalOwl]

Has it been machined? Does it have the pink barcodes along the bottom edge and halfway up on the right hand side? My betting is that he OCR has misread it and it's been coded as one of yours. Your postie then gets it in his sequenced box and he's got tunnel vision on the number.

To make a mistake is human. To really foul things up takes a computer.

If you pop it back in the post please obliterate the barcodes or it will keep coming back to your postie.

[longshot]

Thanks for the info.

Yes, it has the barcodes.

We're going to pop it into the local post office in the next few days and explain the situation.

The 300 mile detour it will take did make me laugh though.

[Nickyboy]

longshot said:

Thanks for the info.

Yes, it has the barcodes.

We're going to pop it into the local post office in the next few days and explain the situation.

Why don't you just stick it in the post box and save yourself the hassle? They won't do anything as the address is correct. Cross out the barcode however