On 03/02/06 10:03 John Robson wrote: > On 03/02/2006 09:22 Paul Oldham reported in Milton News: > >>The Post Office is recommended changes to post codes to take effect in >>September with CB4 becoming CB24, so all the village postcodes will >>become CB24 6xx. [...] > > Why the change[?] I've not seen the letter but Jim read a bit of it out to me and I think it's down to lots of new houses being built hereabouts. I imagine the Arbury Park development is in CB4 and I think Longstowe would be too as Longstanton is. This is the second time I've been through this. Last time the reason was far more spurious. Where I used to live changed postcode so it could move from being Yateley, Camberley, Surrey to Yateley, Hants. Apparently this was because people wanted to be seen as living in Hampshire (where Yateley really is) not Surrey (where Camberley is). Who these people where, why it was necessary or required a change of postcode to achieve I've no idea. As for transition it's not just stationery. Like you I print mine off as necessary on a colour laser printer (although most of the time I just email people a PDF and get them to print it off ;-)) but it's also things like buying things on the Web. A lot of the time they want a valid postcode ...