This is a lengthy transfer of the highlights from a post originally posted by @sheymouse on the old Software Testing Club. The intention of the post was to compile a list of fun postcodes (from any country) which can be used when testing, and give a little spark of fun or interest. If I’ve mis-tagge…

[image] heather_reid: A helpful DPD driver gave us one he was able to get from his handheld based on his location when delivering one day which seems to work fine. And I assume that particular code didn’t match any of the five “official” ones. :grinning:

Oh of course it didn’t! The 5 official ones didn’t find any addresses :joy:

UK postcodes aren’t always 100% right, either. Back when I was freelancing as an estate agent’s photographer, I was directed to a property which turned out to be derelict. The property I was supposed to be photographing was a quarter-mile down the road and the owner complained that this was always h…

Don’t forget other countries, too. Canada is fairly straight forward with all codes being in the format of alternating letters and numbers: A1A 1A1 (the space is used when writing by hand but often stripped out electronically). Santa Claus has a postal code which is actually used to send letters and…

[image] rightsaidjames: Another category of post codes I didn’t see mentioned above are those for armed forces members living abroad - you can send post to them via the British Forces Post Office. The Wikipedia article gives the example of ‘BFPO 61’ which corresponds to Milan, Italy. Oddly en…

I like to see if there is a language or parental filter so i use KW17 2LN, not sure what they call the residents ? or the best place to live BH20 7HU i also use BFPOs

These days with the open plus codes freely available, I don’t know why we can’t include those in addresses too: it can also make it easier to locate where exactly the correct letterbox is! NB Plus codes are like the “what 3 words” thing that had some internet fame a few years back but unlike them a…

I can’t believe I forgot to add another fun Irish one: Some Irish addresses will need to be able to accept phone numbers in the address line. Why? In certain areas, you can have many people called the same name living very close to each other e.g. Mary Ward Placename Town name With the histor…

Love this post. I use random generated postcodes and names in a previous role and set famous people in postcodes they wouldn’t otherwise live at, :joy:

What are fun postcodes to use when testing?

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guna.petrova (Guna) 14 November 2019 07:24 12

This is my source of inspiration :3.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code

Presentation gives nice overview

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There are few post codes for Santa ^^

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What are fun postcodes to use when testing?

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