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North West Midlands Mail Centre Southampton Mail Centre. Royal Mail operates a network of 37 mail centres (as of 2019). [131] Each mail centre serves a large geographically defined area of the UK and together they form the backbone network of the mail distribution operation. Mail is collected and brought to one of the mail centres.
Until 1996, Royal Mail required counties to be included in addresses, except for 110 of the larger post towns. For these "special post towns", the former postal county is shown in brackets below. Since 1996, counties are not required for any address.
Postal counties of the United Kingdom. The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, [ 1] were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. [ 2] The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like ...
WV postcode area. / 52.582; -2.154. The WV postcode area, also known as the Wolverhampton postcode area, [ 2] is a group of sixteen postcode districts in England, within four post towns. These cover Wolverhampton, Willenhall and Bilston in the West Midlands, plus parts of south-west Staffordshire and south-east Shropshire (including Bridgnorth ).
The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode. [ 1] There are currently 121 geographic postcode areas in use in the UK and a further three often combined with these covering the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man.
Royal Mail (1999). Address Management Guide (6th ed.). "Royal Mail major recode historical information – 2000 to September 2011" (PDF). Royal Mail. 3 November 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2017
Walsall. / 52.648; -1.955. The WS postcode area, also known as the Walsall postcode area, [2] is a group of fifteen postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover the northern part of the West Midlands (including Walsall and Wednesbury) and much of south-east Staffordshire (including Lichfield, Cannock, Burntwood and Rugeley ).
48% of Birmingham's children lived in poverty in 2022-23 [Getty Images] The West Midlands is one of the worst-hit areas of the country for child poverty, according to analysis by a think tank ...