User talk:OaklandRio

Postal counties and codes
Hi. I took thise codes you added off the postal counties of the United Kingdom as they weren't postal. Not sure what they were, possibly Chapman codes used by genealogists? Anyway postal code has a specific meaning in the UK with one or two letters to a postcode area, never three. Thanks.Lozleader (talk) 21:39, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Lozleader, what I put in was not postal codes, but abbreviations for the counties. Check the column heading - it says "abbreviation." I got the info from Logistics World, a directory of international shipping. http://www.logisticsworld.com/ukcounties.asp I know I'm new at this, but I don't see where what I did was wrong. Thanks, OaklandRio (talk) 23:24, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I see: the column is actually for the official postal abbreviations used by the Royal Mail: only some counties have (or rather had) abbreviated forms, and the data is taken from |here. The codes on the Logistics World site seem to be identical to the Chapman codes, which are used to identify administrative divisions for statistics, genealogy etc. As the article says: They have no postal relevance and are not recognised by the Royal Mail. Postal counties while often sharing the name of a local government county rarely have/had the same boundaries. The Chapman codes, which relate to administrative entities, don't belong in the article on postal counties.


 * I don't really understand why the Logistics World site lists the codes: they can't be used for delivering anything! Or why they call them "abbreviations" rather than codes. Poor research on their part?


 * I accept your edit was in good faith and you did not do anything wrong. I was just letting you know why I had reverted the edit.


 * I hope you continue to enjoy making contributions. Cheers. Lozleader (talk) 13:56, 27 June 2008 (UTC)