A solution for the Royal Mail....

HERE HERE ! FOR THESE OPEN DATABASE PROJECTS !

Here in Canada you can lookup any postal code for free. For a small fee (covering the cost of printing) you can get a printed book or even a datafile with the information. Makes sense, after all, we paid for it with our taxes and it makes life easier for the post office compared to having mail without codes being sent in the mail.

That's the solution really.

Start a campaign where everyone in the UK stops using the postcodes, until they are free to all.

Force the blokes to sort them like old days..... soon they'll be begging to give you post codes for free.

Cheers !

PS Is it just me, or has Government, taxes, willingness to pay too much for everything, political correctness gotten a little out of control in the UK ? You went from a country that controlled half the planet to one that seems to be on the verge of collapsing under it's own bureaucrats.

All we need to do is combine that with the "sue everyone" BS in the USA and the "Blame everyone else" BS that's becoming more common in Canada. and we could have a great place to live.... ugh.

I used the "getting my coat" icon because It's no wonder why many people in the UK, including my cousins, are doing just that.