Do you mention Sussex when giving your address?

[Goldstone Rapper]

I put Sussex-By-The-Sea

 

[BensGrandad]

Of course it will. A number and postcode pinpoints a house.
If you just put Worthing West Sussex there are thousands of houses in the area.

Ok being pedantic are we. How about 97 Tarring Road Worthing Sussex if that is where the letter is destined for, will take longer than 97 Tarring Rd WORTHING BN11 4BB. or whatever is the postcode.

Is there such a place as Sussex now or is it West Sussex and East Sussex

 

[Mackenzie]

I put Powys.

 

[Mackenzie]

West Sussex lalala

East, East, East Sussex......

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Argus in non-story shock.

Sussex hasn't been part of your postal address for ten years or more. Royal Mail don't use counties and haven't done so for at least this long. Postcodes are the key bit, along with house name and number.
This Argus "story" is just about Royal Mail not including the County in the Postcode Address File, to save data space on this huge file.

The problem I find is that companies using Royal Mail postcode software haven't bothered to update it since they first bought it. According to them Grimsby is still in South Humberside , a local authority that was disbanded in 1996.

 

[Braders]

yeah always stick East Sussex on the end

 

[8ace]

Part of the reason I put Sussex is because I'm proud to come from here. If I lived an a shit county like Surrey, Kent, Hampshire or Yorkshire I probably wouldn't bother.

 

[southwickseagull]

WEST Sussex always. Bugs me a bit to have to say i live in Brighton. Southwick is not in Brighton.

 

[£1.99]

If I need to write down my place of birth I now always put City of Brighton & Hove.

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

Shropshire. Which is strange because I live in Staffordshire.

 

[Gazwag]

I alway put East Sussex, some people don't realise there is no such county as Sussex

 

[drew]

Really?

My mistake. I thought it'd be the same as Haywards Heath

Have you ever been north of the downs before?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sussex is easy to deal with.

What if you lived in Berwick-upon-Tweed?

Northumberland, England? Or Berwickshire, Scotland?

The Tourist Information Centre there gives its address as:-
106 Marygate
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Northumberland
TD15 1BN

"TD" is the postcode for Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Cockburnspath, Coldstream, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Duns, Earlston, Eyemouth, Galashiels, Gordon, Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso, Lauder, Melrose, Mindrum, Newcastleton and Selkirk. Almost all of these places are in Scotland.

The Post Office is systematically DESTROYING any sense of heritage that belongs to particular places.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Incidentally ... the most recent communication I have received from the football club was addressed to me at:-

Name
Street
Lewes
BN8 6**

No mention at all of either "East Sussex" or the village in which I live. Lewes is six miles away.

The letter (first class) arrived without any delay, a day after it was posted.

 

[burrish-gull]

What a load of bollocks, Brighton and Hove Albion FC, EAST Sussex club, always has and always will be. Having said that though without the East / West Sussex support (and believe it or not West Kent, Tunbridge Wells areas) the club would be dead. Its a county wide club and the support is coming back via the new Amex Stadium.

 

[fleet]

no - but mostly due to the fact that I live in Hampshire

 

[Fef]

A house number (or name) and postcode is all that's required as a return address on a parcel, so I guess that's all that's necessary for a postal address; the streetname and town in a postal address probably serves as contingency in case the sender made a mistake writing the postcode.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Always Hastings, East Sussex so yeah. God's own county but unfortunately it's the ar$ehole region so always give that extra Sussex detail. People have a very different image of Hastings and of Sussex. If I could get away with putting 'Old Town Hastings' I would

 

[The Large One]

What gets me is the number of organisations (including the BBC) who say 'Brighton, West Sussex'.

Another thing is that Derek Chapman's firm Adenstar put 'Portslade, West Sussex' as their address. Portslade (ceremonially) is in East Sussex, though the office is about 40 yards into West Sussex. It's actually in Fishersgate but, he says, no-one outside the area has heard of Fishersgate.

 

[Superphil]

Whereabouts is West Hove?