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The RG postcode area, also known as the Reading postcode area, [2] is a group of thirty postcode districts in England, within twelve post towns.These cover west and central Berkshire (including Reading, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Hungerford, Newbury, Thatcham and Wokingham) and north Hampshire (including Basingstoke, Hook, Tadley and Whitchurch), plus a small part of south-east Oxfordshire ...
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Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1]
Address Management Guide (6th ed.). "Royal Mail major recode historical information – 2000 to September 2011" (PDF). Royal Mail. 3 November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2017
For the purposes of directing mail, the United Kingdom (although the populations listed just show figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland), is divided by Royal Mail into postcode areas. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [ 1 ]
The PAF is commercially licensable and is often incorporated in address management software packages. The capabilities of such packages allow most addresses to be constructed solely from the postcode and house number. By including the map references of postcodes in the address database, the postcode can be used to pinpoint a postcode area on a ...
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / ⓘ RED-ing) [2] is a town and borough in Berkshire, England, and the county town of Berkshire.Most of its built-up area lies within the Borough of Reading, although some outer suburbs are parts of neighbouring local authority areas.
According to the Royal Mail, the former postal county data no longer forms part of postal addresses. It was removed from the Postcode Address File database in 2000 and does not form part of its code of practice for changing addresses. [3] Despite this, county data is routinely sold to companies, ostensibly to let them cleanse their own address ...