Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/28/06 22:37

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> They have to do that *anyway* to use the codes *themselves*. They don't
> have to do it all over again just to post the list so the rest of us
> have access to it.

The post office doesn't need to know longitude/latitude information to use
postcodes -- it only needs to know where a postcode is in terms of region,
town and street. When the postman is delivering the mail, he doesn't do so
with a GPS device in his hand, saying, "0.5 degrees due North East".

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