Hillingdon resident hits out at 'crazy postal regulations'

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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A RESIDENT has criticised 'crazy postal regulations' which he argues has led to a neighbours back-garden build being incorrectly addressed.

Stephen Williamson lives at 105 Sweetcroft Lane, Hillingdon, and when his neighbours at 107 had a property built in their back garden, he assumed the new address would become 107A.

This was not the case, with the new property given the moniker 105A.

He says this has led to postal mix ups and wrong deliveries, even though there is a side street separating the two properties.




"It should clearly be named 107A, the house is built in the garden of 107.

"I keep getting the wrong letters and all sorts, a bike rode up to mine this week with two big boxes and there was a transit van the week before that.

"I've tried to nip this in the bud, the the council say they have done nothing wrong.

"What makes it worse is across the road, there is a street lamp, with a sign saying up to 107 only."

Hillingdon Council's planning department has refused to budge, stating that street addresses have to remain consecutive, and as the entrance of 105A falls before 107, it cannot be named 107A.

They say no exception can be made, citing a need for total consistency within the postal system.

Any address using the suffix 'A' must fall after the original road number rising numerically.

The local authority also added that the two addresses have differing postcodes, and there was no reason why the Royal Mail and delivery companies should confuse the two.

[POSTMAN]

Seems silly,if the new build is on 107's property...

[fishtank]

It depends where the access is.
We have one built in the garden of 5 and it's 5a.
The only problem is..the access to it is from the street at the back of 5.
So you'll be delivering along X street and in the middle of your bundle there's one for 5A Y street.

[Coggz]

Whats his problem any mail just bin it,nice parcels he gets to keep them.It's 107a that should be moaning:-p

[music4essex]

I have a road and one side goes 17/15/12A/9 yet even no's are on the opposite of the road yet on the even side is a no 12

Essex mum

[PhilthyPhil]

Replacing 13 with 12A is not that uncommon really, although it's probably more common for it to just be skipped.

[not me]

what postal regulations?
councils give buildings their new addresses

[Lounge Lizard]

"I keep getting the wrong letters and all sorts, a bike rode up to mine this week with two big boxes and there was a transit van the week before that."
Sell the transit van on Ebay and stop moaning.