{"id":2238,"date":"2020-09-12T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2020-09-12T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T10:51:22","slug":"latest-postcodes-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/12\/latest-postcodes-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest postcodes updated to August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As per the latest code point open from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/business-government\/products\/code-point-open\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/business-government\/products\/code-point-open\">Ordnance Survey to August 2020<\/a>. These typically become available every 3-4 months.  This time we have 3,201 new postcodes, 2520 deleted ones and 910 restored or renewed. The UK&#8217;s poscodes are actually a pretty good addressing system but they are not perfect as these quarterly refinements show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each postcode typically covers about 26 addressees only. So you could actually just about post a letter to that one postcode and a name and the Royal Mail would work out which building it should go to with some additional effort. Many other countries have a town number for a postcode which gives you very little granularity. The Republic of Ireland probably has the best system, with one code &#8211; an Eircode &#8211; for every single address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the latest code point open from the Ordnance Survey to August 2020. These typically become available every 3-4 months. This time we have 3,201 new postcodes, 2520 deleted ones and 910 restored or renewed. The UK&#8217;s poscodes are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/12\/latest-postcodes-updated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}