In a flash of inspiration, NZ Post decided to change the postcodes for a lot of new Zealand's mail delivery. And to solve the confusion, they installed a Very Flash Postcode Finder on their website.
According to NZ Post's website, Seaview Road, Piha ... does not exist. Or rather, it is not located in any of the following towns or cities:
- Piha
- Auckland
- Waitakere
Searching the very high-tech but not very accurate NZ Post PostCode Finder in order to get a correct address for your mail results in this:
If you think you live in the cities of Auckland or Waitakere, you're sadly mistaken:
Luckily for them, Brad - our marvellous postman - refuses to acknowledge their denial of our existence. We still get our mail.
Update: NZ Post only recognise this address if I state it as being in New Lynn, 30km away.
If I give it correctly, stating the name of the actual town, NZ Post gets it wrong by 272km.
Yip: a lot of people can't find Piha's Post Code - 3 cheers for Brad.
Love your humour
B
Well written, and oh so funny but tut tut, B, the post office has stipulated that we MUST have our code on our addresses otherwise they just will NOT find us! Also as a matter of interest, for those of us who live in Te Ahuahu Road, we have had to be careful with our address for years because there is a Te Ahuahu Road, in PAIHIA!! Luckily with the use of postal codes this has made things easier for everyone.
The correct Postal code for Po Box holders at Piha is 0646 and is easily found on the NZ Post website.
@Julie - I'm in total agreement - all I'm saying is that if NZ Post want us to use the correct postcodes, they should fix their lookup tool so it can cope with addresses that humans - dare I say residents - might give, rather than those you might get from a computer.
@PihaMan - Thanks for letting us know the PO Box postcode, I didn't know that
However, if I search eg for the Tennis Club (PO Box 11, Piha) on NZ Post's postcode finder for postboxes, I get the same behaviour:
So what's your secret, PihaMan? How did *you* get the right results out of that devilish tool of theirs?
I gave up on NZ Post, and use Google for postcode lookups now.
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