Nortish Post

H. M. General Post Office

Agency overview
Formed	18th century
Jurisdiction	Great Nortend
Headquarters	General Post Office, Edcheap, Lendert
Agency executive	James Kinson, H. M. Postmaster-General

His Majesty's General Post Office is the public postal, telegraph, telephone and wireless communications authority in Great Nortend. It was formed in the 18th century when the Royal Mails, a department of the Royal Household, began offering services to the general public. It is a founding member of the Astyrian Postal League. The Post Office, as it is widely known, is based at the General Post Office in Lendert-with-Cadell, at Edcheap, the traditional centre of the City and from whence all distances are measured.

Addresses

The Erbonian addressing system is a admixture of a numbering system with the more traditional building naming system. Generally, buildings are numbered either consecutively along a street or in the 'European' system, with odd on one side and even on the other. Many homes have names which may be used instead of numbers. Thus, the address “5 Church Street, Popford, Eamshire 272” is more commonly addressed “Smithavalon House, Popford, Eamshire 272”.

Posting Codes

The Post Office administers the system of “Posting Codes” which are used for the efficient sorting and delivery of mail. The system allocates a two digit “Region Number” number to each postal region within a postal county. Local districts are allocated a number known as the “District Number” which affixed to the Region Number, forms the Posting Code. The District Number is placed after the postal county in addresses.

For example, the postal county of Eamshire is split up into thirteen postal regions. The Asham postal region is given the Region Number 27. The Asham district, which covers the town of Asham itself, has District Number 1 whilst the Popford district has District Number 2. The Grant's Cross area, which within the Popford district, has the Area Number 2. This is written with the postal county, District Number and Region Number as Eamshire 2722.

It is not necessary to a use all digits of a Posting Code. A letter to Grant's Cross may simply be addressed Eams. 272 or even Ea. 27. It is even not necessary to use the Posting Code at all, although a full address with locality and county must always be provided.

Posting Codes are also used in the Telegraphic Numbering Plan used for telephone and telegraph numbers. In such usage, the two letter abbreviation of the county, the Region Number and the District Number make up the five digit region number.