Trends observed in Royal Mail casual job, 2011
1) Postcodes
If you write to someone in an obscure speck-on-the-map village, then PLEASE use the postcode, or at least put "near (closest town)" underneath.
The flipside is that lots of people do write on the envelope "sorry postie, don't know the postcode" or words to that effect, which is at least polite.
2) Letters to Father Christmas
These do get sorted and delivered. No postage required (it won't get to Lapland faster just because you put a load of stamps on, Mr Fancy. Santa is egalitarian), no address required.
3) 'To Dave, London'
We get a lot of these. Jokes. Also Christmas cards with "Pam & Mick" (etc) on the front, no address, no stamp, down to people mistaking a postbox for their friend's front door.
4) Spidery, unreadably shaky handwriting of people for whom holding a pen is clearly now an effort, still sending their list of cards like clockwork every year.
5) 'Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead'
This. Lots.
If you write to someone in an obscure speck-on-the-map village, then PLEASE use the postcode, or at least put "near (closest town)" underneath.
The flipside is that lots of people do write on the envelope "sorry postie, don't know the postcode" or words to that effect, which is at least polite.
2) Letters to Father Christmas
These do get sorted and delivered. No postage required (it won't get to Lapland faster just because you put a load of stamps on, Mr Fancy. Santa is egalitarian), no address required.
3) 'To Dave, London'
We get a lot of these. Jokes. Also Christmas cards with "Pam & Mick" (etc) on the front, no address, no stamp, down to people mistaking a postbox for their friend's front door.
4) Spidery, unreadably shaky handwriting of people for whom holding a pen is clearly now an effort, still sending their list of cards like clockwork every year.
5) 'Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead'
This. Lots.