Border Postcode Battle
There is an item from the BBC's Reporting Scotland on the BBC News website (link may not work outside the UK or on AOL for various technical reasons) highlighting the angst of people in Scotland being subjected to English postcodes - even in some cases having "Berwickshire, Scotland" substituted with "Northumberland" on their post. Residents are concerned by the response from various organs of officialdom - from whence will the fire brigade come when the house is ablaze? what about the ambulance? the police?
Again no mention of the similar but opposite fate of the residents of Cornhill & district being subjected to Scottish postcodes - despite being firmly in England.
The Papershop is firmly within Scotland and in almost all instances Coldstream is placed in Scotland by officialdom - apart from when the PaperBoy checks his ADSL account where Coldstream Telephone exchange is listed as "Coldstream, Northumberland" despite having a BT exchange locator code that places it firmly in Eastern Scotland.
Again no mention of the similar but opposite fate of the residents of Cornhill & district being subjected to Scottish postcodes - despite being firmly in England.
The Papershop is firmly within Scotland and in almost all instances Coldstream is placed in Scotland by officialdom - apart from when the PaperBoy checks his ADSL account where Coldstream Telephone exchange is listed as "Coldstream, Northumberland" despite having a BT exchange locator code that places it firmly in Eastern Scotland.
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posted by The Paper Boy at
14:25
2 Comments:
I had no idea that Coldstream had these problems. I never once considered that Coldstream was in England. Spare a thought for poor Gretna of wedding-over-the-border fame. It is right on the border and suffers the "is it in England or Scotland" indignity all the time.
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Peggy, at August 14, 2006 6:59 PM
Thankfully we in Coldstream don't suffer too much from this sort of thing, although sometimes people assume it's just inside England rather than just inside Scotland - I'm sure the people of Cornhill (just the other side of the border) get it all the time though as all their post is delivered from Coldstream.
It's the smaller villages nearer Berwick that have the bigger problems with Fire, Ambulance and Police cover - they're 4-5 miles from Berwick and 10+ from Duns, Coldstream & Eyemouth where help might otherwise be sent from.
By
The Paper Boy, at August 14, 2006 10:51 PM
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