Our house is called Barnett Cottage.
Just around the corner there is No 1 Barnett Cottages.
There is also Barnett House.
All three properties glory in the same post code. Consequently delivery personnel, using sat navs, often make deliveries to the wrong establishment.
No-one wishes to go through the hassle of renaming their homes. Indeed, I, for one, rather like the historical continuity - our property was certainly known by its current name from before the 1911 census. (Mind you, Barnett Cottages are explicit in the 1901 census whereas in that listing there's no name attached to our house so maybe Barnett Cottages have precedence. Then again, census enumerators were not necessarily diligent in their recording of house names and/or numbers).
Now, many sat navs have the facility to use GPS coordinates which are far more accurate that post codes. Is it time that we all added GPS coordinates to our addresses?
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