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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Still not as good as the UK system, imao.
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Your post code reorganisation sounds a lot like ours. I went from NP1 5JL to NP11 5JL.
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those of you who have my snail-mail addy
I've amended my address book before I forget.
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