I just saw on teletext (TV text news) that NZ is building a new prison in Port Vila. :-P Apparently the two existing ones are "on their last legs". I think Vila would prefer them that way. For that matter, he'd also rather it was the other sort of port that was named after him
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Our old one was the same for the entire city (pop. about 200k). Our new one covers several suburbs, so it doesn't narrow things down all that much. It probably refers to one postie nest or something.
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Yes, I seem to remember the German change was something similar. I don't have my sister's old code to hand, but from memory it was something like 69000 and it became 69121.
And I do remember when our postcode was just M20. Roland Watson, who lived just down the road from here, reels that off as part of his address in Elidor (published 1965). The more detailed code must have come in between then and 1973, because I remember my birth-house was 0BJ and that was when we moved.
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Yes, I particularly liked that feature.
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1005 was several eastern suburbs, quite a large area, but now each suburb seems to have at least one postcode of its own. Also, the first digit relates to 'cities' within Auckland, so 0 is North Shore, 1 is Auckland, 2 is Manukau. That should (I hope) stop the occasional mail we get for a similarly-named street on the North Shore.
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Yeah! Before we went overseas, we didn't have one at all. (Aye, and we had to walk two miles to school, each way, in t'snow, uphill both ways....)
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And now I've lost all vestiges of 5-ness. :-(
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I do have a vague memory of my parent's address in Christchurch having a 3.
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Lush Avenue is just over the hill, and is where a car with the number plate CALLY used to park. I kept intending to park LIBR8R beside it and take a picture but I haven't seen it for ages. I parked right by BLAKE in Mission Bay last year, but didn't have my camera. :-(
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Ah the dyslexic postman gets around. We have one who can read numbers but not letters, the appropriate numbers on the Hill get the letters for all the other streets that have those numbers in.
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Yes, I really should amend my address stickers and use them up.
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