[email protected] wrote: > I have a letter an envelope posted from Garstang. Lancs in 1862. > > The address reads; > > John Hardcastle > Slough > Bucks > > Thats how good it was. And the letter would have been delivered the next day. It's possible nowadays to abbreviate the address to just the house number and postal code (eg 123/XY4 7BC), no street or town mentioned, and it will arrive but it takes 3 or 4 days to do so even from within the same town.