On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:54:39 +0100, druck wrote:

> Ours is a new house in quite a long street, they gave us a postcode
> which isn't the same as the houses around us, its from 300m further up
> the road, and the houses have names and not numbers. Every delivery
> bloke on the planet has driven straight past, stopped further up, and
> then phoned to say they couldn't find us. Lucky the other side of the
> road has sequential numbers, so we have to tell everyone we are opposite
> number 44.
>
Have you any idea why you weren't given the same postcode as the houses
on either side? Simple cockup or....

However, the effect reminds me of parts of the Dutch-Belgian border near
Baarle-Nassau is near as dammit fractal, with Dutch houses and villages
completely surrounded by Belgium and vice versa. It shows up well on
Google Earth. Other parts of the same border such as the part north of
Houthalen-Helcheren are also fairly spectacularly convoluted, but come
nowhere near the confusion around Baarle-Nassau.


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