What's a Post Town?

A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system. Including the correct post town in the address increases the chance of a letter or parcel being delivered on time.

What is a post town example?

Post towns rarely correspond exactly to administrative boundaries and their associated physical features. ... For example, the postcode sector EH14 5 is split between three post towns: Juniper Green, Currie and Balerno. Its other postcode sectors are generally limited to one of these.

What does post town mean?

1 : a town having the chief post office of a local area. 2 British : a town having a post office which is the distribution point for mail to the smaller local post offices in a given area and whose name must be part of the address on mail to any place within that area.