Country sub-division:Counties Country Telephone Format: (0xxxx) xxxxxx (5digit area code 6 digit phone number) Note some mobile phones run on the 4 digit area code but will eventually be bought in line. International Phone Code: 44 Weights & Measures Metric excepts Roads and Alcoholic Beverages National ID Number: National Insurance No. AA NN NN NN A Country Postal Code Format: AA11C 22BB AA represents the Area 11 represents the sub divided postal district area C usually only applies to large cities like London where the street density is very high. as part of the the postal district 22 The Sector BB The Unit (approx. 15 address per unit) Two Primary Services in use 1st Class Targetted for Next working day (Mon - Sat) throughout the UK No Maximium Weight 2nd Class Targetted for Delivery within 3 working days minium, Maximium Weight 750grams Many other Services offered include Electronic Services which covers things like Faxes to people without a fax for example. Road Network Motorways (prefix M), A-roads (prefix A), B Roads (Prefix B), unclassified (no number). Roads are number according to the position they would have if placed on an anologue clock. 1 replaces 12 (noon) for obvious reasons, so 4 becomes 3 o'clock and so on. So M1 goes North to South, M4 goes from East to West and so on. Country Currency Format: £999,999.99 GBP Hundred = 100 Thousand = 1,000 Million = 1,000,000 Billion = 1,000,000,000 Currency is two decimal places separated by a period. Repeated digit separator is a comma every three digits. Currency symbol is a œ (pound Sterling) ISO Currency code is GBP No official County abbrievations Non official County Abreviations in widespread use though. Regions South West South Central South East Anglia London Midlands Wales North West North East Scotland Northern Ireland Languages: English, Welsh, & Gaelic Area:244,013 sq Kilometres Population 56,000,000 Capital :London MODEL ADDRESSES Name of Addressee Name of Company (where applicable) Name of Building (not need if it has a number) Number of Building and name of Street or Road Locality Name (where neccesary) Post Town (in Capitals) PostCode (in Capitals) Ideal Fonts for post office machines Courier, Courier New or Brougham Helvetica, Avant Garde, Franklin Gothic Arial, Avalon and Frankfurt Gothic For Automated handling Min 140mm (L) x 90mm (H) x 0.5mm (Depth or thickness) Max 240mm (L) x 165mm (H) x 6mm (Depth) Address printed withing 15mm from left hand side 15mm from the top to 18mm from the bottom Just to avoid any confusion with postcodes, each section can be 1 or 2 digits eg B1 1NF = Birmingham section 1 (probably CBD) and so on or CM23 2QP = Chelmsford district , section 23 = Bishops Stortford 2QP = a particular road and the proposed changes for londons eg current 0171 or 0181 depicts inner or outer london, will still be used with changes, but the 5th digit will id the area within inner or outer london. This came up in a chat with a friend in BT so don't quote mePosted by:Richard Rose
From Chris Cook I'm not sure what other people may say but the UK has a number of strange systems for phone numbers and the like which don't obey the standard rules that you have in the states. As far as I understand it for phone: All numbers start with an area code prefixed by a 0 if calling from within the UK - the 0 is replaced by a 44 from outside. The area code can be anything from 3 digits (eg 171 for central london) to 5 digits (14593 for a free call number shown inside my phone book - no idea what this numbers for). The area code is followed by a number which tends to be 6 digits and in most places this has happened. I know we're just in the throes of changing a lot of area codes again - but as a developer I have for years just provided a string 20 field for phone numbers because there has never been a good practicable rule to follow. For postal codes: These tend to start with a one/two character code for the postal district eg BN or RH for Redhill and Brighton or M for Manchester followed by a 1 or 2 digit number for the sector within that district. For instance, I could live in sector 1 of redhill which is my nearest major sorting office so my code will start RH1 but it could as well be sector 11 hence RH11. After the district and sector there should be a space in the postcode followed by a digit then one or two characters. I can't remember how they work out the subdivisions but it further narrows down where I live. A postcode such as RH11 8LN will narrow an address to 1 office/house or a group of even or odd numbered houses, or a block of flats. A london postcode of EC1 8AS or I think M2 4GJ are also valid codes. Note that sorting by postcode when spaced and because of the different number of digits is nigh impossible. For those doing mailsort: In it's infinite wisdom I think that the UK postal services recognise the madness of the postcode system and they publish a set of mailsort tables which is a 5 digit code that is used by large mailing operations to presort into appropriate bags the stuff they are sending out. This code isn't generally used by the public and unfortunately the mailsort code for RH11 8LN may be very similar or near identical to TN2 8NB (it isn't, but if I dug out my old tables I could find examples) simply because of geographical boundaries and where sorting offices are based. If you're trying to this sort of thing for the UK then don't bother - it would take a regulator to sort this mess out - and then it would involve a big hue and cry by businesses in yet another costly change to all their stationery and telling their customers after two similar exercises over the past few years. FWIW - I use four address lines of 40 characters for street/house name, district, town and county (five if country is required) followed by one of 8 in uppercase for postcode.
From Roberto Artigas: Here is what I have on Great Britain: Postcode Areas: AB = Aberdeen AL = St. Albans B = Birmingham BA = Bath BB = Blackburn BD = Bradford BH = Bournemouth BL = Bolton BN = Brighton BR = Bromley BS = Bristol BT = Northern Ireland CA = Carliste CB = Cambridge CF = Cardiff CH = Chester CM = Chelmsford CO = Colchester CR = Croydon CT = Cantebury CW = Crewe DA = Dartford DD = Dundee DE = Derby DG = Dumfries DH = Durham DL = Darlington DN = Doncaster DT = Dorchester DY = Dudley E = London E EC = London EC EH = Edinburg EN = Enfield EX = Exter FK = Falkirk FY = Blackpool G = Glasgow GL = Gloucester GY = Guernsey GU = Guildford HA = Harrow HD = Huddersfield HG = Harrogate HP = Hemel Hempstead HR = Hereford HS = Outer Hebrides HU = Hull HX = Halifax IG = Ilford IM = Isle of Man IP = Ipswich IV = Inverness JE = Jersey KA = Kilmarnock KT = Kingston Upon Thames KW = Kirkwall KY = Kirkcaldy L = Liverpool LA = Lancaster LD = Llandrindod Wells LE = Leister LL = Llandudno LN = Lincoln LS = Leeds LU = Luton M = Manchester ME = Medway MK = Milton Keynes ML = Motherwell N = London N NE = Newcastel Upon Tyne NG = Nottingham NN = Northampton NP = Newport NR = Norwick NW = London NW OL = Oldham OX = Oxford PA = Paisley PE = Peterbourough PH = Perth PL = Plymouth PO = Portsmouth PR = Preston RG = Reading RH = Redhill RM = Romford S = Sheffield SA = Swansea SE = London SE SG = Stevenage SK = Stockpost SL = Slough SM = Sutton SN = Swindon SO = Southampton SP = Salisbury SR = Sunderland SS = Southend on Sea ST = Stoke on Trent SW = London SW SY = Shrewsbury TA = Taunton TD = Galashiels TF = Telford TN = Tonbridge TQ = Torquay TR = Truro TS = Cleveland TW = Twickenham UB = Southall W = London W WA = Warrington WC = London WC WD = Watford WF = Wakefield WN = Wigan WR = Worcester WS = Walsall WV = Wolverhampton YO = York ZE = Lerwick Posted by Roberto Artigas
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