How to receive deliveries (and mail) to plot of land?

[SoilHugger]

I suppose the main question is does a property have to be registered as residential to have a royal mail mailing address?

Surely that is not always the case as business, they don't live there yet have a mailing address.

Can you just plonk up a postbox and get word to the postie to deliver there without issue?

I have read differing opinions online on this. Some say you could but others say the postal service will complain that you are not registered for council tax there and so they are unable to deliver.

Does it depend on area? Maybe more lenient in rural places?

Also if royal mail won't will private couriers like dpd/dhl/evri? I suspect they won't care a hoot so long as they can find the place as their main priority is just getting rid of packages and many stories of such companies just flinging packages over walls into neighbour's gardens, even fly tipping bit piles of them just to get rid.

The only issue then would be if they could find the place but maybe just write a note saying where to find on a map, while giving the area postcode, since it would not come up on auto complete, not being a registered address.

Locknaw Smithy youtube channel confidently claimed to simply put your address in on the royal mail website, put up a postbox and then order a bunch of junk mail to get the postie used to sending to your address and job done. Most of the comments replied that this doesn't work though and royal mail would complain about it not being registered with the council as mentioned above.

So is it officially allowed to have a postal address for somewhere you don't live and just work for in the week for exmaple with a postbox at the bottom of the track and despite whether it is officially allowed does it work?

 

[Goweresque]

One assumes that post/parcel deliveries rely almost entirely on postcode, not a descriptive address. Hence why a house number or name plus a postcode on a letter will get it there. So if your field doesn't have a postcode then the postal system won't function. And to get a postcode seems to require the council being involved to accept that a new postal address has been created, which in turn requires some sort of either dwelling or premises having been built, which means planning permission having been granted and implemented.

I guess that if your field was close by to an existing dwelling/business premises that had a post code then you could just stick up a sign with a name on it, and a postbox and piggy back on that postcode. But if its is way out on its own, in open country, then getting a postcode that will direct deliveries to your gateway is going to be tough one suspects. Its not impossible that some delivery firms might get items through to you, but equally plenty wouldn't, and you'd be constantly chasing items that had gone missing as undeliverable.

 

[Farmer Ed]

Speak to your local council they will provide you with an official registered address which can then be logged with royal mail (and all other couriers)

 

[onesiedale]

for couriers, use what3words

 

[BuskhillFarm]

kinda the same as a new build that’s put on a greenfield site, I phoned the post office to register my address with them just

 

[PhilipB]

I suppose the main question is does a property have to be registered as residential to have a royal mail mailing address?

Surely that is not always the case as business, they don't live there yet have a mailing address.

Can you just plonk up a postbox and get word to the postie to deliver there without issue?

I have read differing opinions online on this. Some say you could but others say the postal service will complain that you are not registered for council tax there and so they are unable to deliver.

Does it depend on area? Maybe more lenient in rural places?

Also if royal mail won't will private couriers like dpd/dhl/evri? I suspect they won't care a hoot so long as they can find the place as their main priority is just getting rid of packages and many stories of such companies just flinging packages over walls into neighbour's gardens, even fly tipping bit piles of them just to get rid.

The only issue then would be if they could find the place but maybe just write a note saying where to find on a map, while giving the area postcode, since it would not come up on auto complete, not being a registered address.

Locknaw Smithy youtube channel confidently claimed to simply put your address in on the royal mail website, put up a postbox and then order a bunch of junk mail to get the postie used to sending to your address and job done. Most of the comments replied that this doesn't work though and royal mail would complain about it not being registered with the council as mentioned above.

So is it officially allowed to have a postal address for somewhere you don't live and just work for in the week for exmaple with a postbox at the bottom of the track and despite whether it is officially allowed does it work?

When I looked into this (
To get harvest workers accomodation a separate address) I seemed to recall that Royal Mail needed proof of planning permission to issue a new postal address.

 

[spark plug]

Whenever you fill in a form online or whatever all the companies use Royal Mail’s address file, so they are the gate keepers.

I suppose the best thing to do is try your luck and see how you get on:

https://www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/update-your-address

 

[Still Farming]

Whenever you fill in a form online or whatever all the companies use Royal Mail’s address file, so they are the gate keepers.

I suppose the best thing to do is try your luck and see how you get on:

https://www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/update-your-address

Redirecting mail possibly.
The travelling fraternity seem to manage ok???

 

[AR Enviro]

kinda the same as a new build that’s put on a greenfield site, I phoned the post office to register my address with them just

Did building control give you your address?

As I haven't finished phase 2 of my build, the post office won't register my address as apparently, it's up to building control to assign addresses although I did just put a post box up and it works, also I did register the house name on Google which helps the couriers out.

It doesn't appear in any online address lists but strangely, only the mobile phone networks won't accept our address as a manual input and have to use the farms for them.

 

[steveR]

for couriers, use what3words

Serious question. Which courier companies can/will use W3W?

 

[badger nadgers]

Redirecting mail possibly.
The travelling fraternity seem to manage ok???

or using Poste Restante.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

For a laugh I would call my field No4 Acacia Avenue.
Irrespective whether acacias or an avenue are harmed or involved in the dastardly plot. You never know.
Try and let us know.
I had a postal address for ‘The Grange’ in a past life.
This was simply a shed in my garden where the eldest boys lived but it had its own postal address as a bit o fun
SS

 

[onesiedale]

Serious question. Which courier companies can/will use W3W?

I guess you'll never know til you ask them.
It is rapidly becoming the easiest location finder to use, and on courier booking services there is often a "special instructions" box .
We put w3w in here because our parish has the same postcode for 50 properties. Whether or not the driver uses it, I don't know.
Back to the OP. Every outlying field or barn will fall into a postcode area, confirm that with a w3w location and, in theory, the delivery driver should be able to place the order on a fencepost

 

[BuskhillFarm]

Did building control give you your address?

As I haven't finished phase 2 of my build, the post office won't register my address as apparently, it's up to building control to assign addresses although I did just put a post box up and it works, also I did register the house name on Google which helps the couriers out.

It doesn't appear in any online address lists but strangely, only the mobile phone networks won't accept our address as a manual input and have to use the farms for them.

It was 10 years ago but no I didn’t send them anything

 

[SoilHugger]

One assumes that post/parcel deliveries rely almost entirely on postcode, not a descriptive address. Hence why a house number or name plus a postcode on a letter will get it there. So if your field doesn't have a postcode then the postal system won't function. And to get a postcode seems to require the council being involved to accept that a new postal address has been created, which in turn requires some sort of either dwelling or premises having been built, which means planning permission having been granted and implemented.

I guess that if your field was close by to an existing dwelling/business premises that had a post code then you could just stick up a sign with a name on it, and a postbox and piggy back on that postcode. But if its is way out on its own, in open country, then getting a postcode that will direct deliveries to your gateway is going to be tough one suspects. Its not impossible that some delivery firms might get items through to you, but equally plenty wouldn't, and you'd be constantly chasing items that had gone missing as undeliverable.

Well it is not near to any close neighbours however it is not 'in the middle of nowhere' or rather in the middle of nowhere along with those other few outcroppings. They are probably a 1/4 to 1/2 a mile in different directions. What land is truly in the middle of nowhere now on this overpopulated island?

It is already nestled in a post code area. In fact, it used to belong to a farm and has been orphaned from it for the land sale - the name of the farm comes up on royal mail lookup. The post code, having looked on royal mail today, as well as other lookups which I forgot which, is a wide area of probably a couple of miles, with a list of quite a few other dwellings and my piece in question is nestled in the middle.

So from what others have said the acquiring of a post code is the hard part, so the heavy lifting is done? Just a case of erecting a suitable name and box and giving it a punt?

 

[slackjawedyokel]

For a laugh I would call my field No4 Acacia Avenue.
Irrespective whether acacias or an avenue are harmed or involved in the dastardly plot. You never know.
Try and let us know.
I had a postal address for ‘The Grange’ in a past life.
This was simply a shed in my garden where the eldest boys lived but it had its own postal address as a bit o fun
SS

Not 29 Acacia Road?

 

[badger nadgers]

Not 29 Acacia Road?

or for us oldies, 52 Festive Road, London.

 

[PhilipB]

I suppose the main question is does a property have to be registered as residential to have a royal mail mailing address?

Surely that is not always the case as business, they don't live there yet have a mailing address.

Can you just plonk up a postbox and get word to the postie to deliver there without issue?

I have read differing opinions online on this. Some say you could but others say the postal service will complain that you are not registered for council tax there and so they are unable to deliver.

Does it depend on area? Maybe more lenient in rural places?

Also if royal mail won't will private couriers like dpd/dhl/evri? I suspect they won't care a hoot so long as they can find the place as their main priority is just getting rid of packages and many stories of such companies just flinging packages over walls into neighbour's gardens, even fly tipping bit piles of them just to get rid.

The only issue then would be if they could find the place but maybe just write a note saying where to find on a map, while giving the area postcode, since it would not come up on auto complete, not being a registered address.

Locknaw Smithy youtube channel confidently claimed to simply put your address in on the royal mail website, put up a postbox and then order a bunch of junk mail to get the postie used to sending to your address and job done. Most of the comments replied that this doesn't work though and royal mail would complain about it not being registered with the council as mentioned above.

So is it officially allowed to have a postal address for somewhere you don't live and just work for in the week for exmaple with a postbox at the bottom of the track and despite whether it is officially allowed does it work?

In your situation which, from your previous posts, is dependent on flying under the radar- I personally would not start with a postal address.

You'll be literally knocking on the council's door shouting "look at me, I'm doing development over here!"

 

[unlacedgecko]

In your situation which, from your previous posts, is dependent on flying under the radar- I personally would not start with a postal address.

You'll be literally knocking on the council's door shouting "look at me, I'm doing development over here!"

When I lived "off grid" the post office told me they wouldn't register an address themselves. Such things were handled by the local council, who wouldn't register an address until council tax was paid on it.

Couriers etc were fine. But for letters we had to use a "proper" address nearby and collect. One can get PO boxes for this purpose. Or pay a negotiated fee to a neighbour/friend.

 

[Whitewalker]

I suppose the main question is does a property have to be registered as residential to have a royal mail mailing address?

Surely that is not always the case as business, they don't live there yet have a mailing address.

Can you just plonk up a postbox and get word to the postie to deliver there without issue?

I have read differing opinions online on this. Some say you could but others say the postal service will complain that you are not registered for council tax there and so they are unable to deliver.

Does it depend on area? Maybe more lenient in rural places?

Also if royal mail won't will private couriers like dpd/dhl/evri? I suspect they won't care a hoot so long as they can find the place as their main priority is just getting rid of packages and many stories of such companies just flinging packages over walls into neighbour's gardens, even fly tipping bit piles of them just to get rid.

The only issue then would be if they could find the place but maybe just write a note saying where to find on a map, while giving the area postcode, since it would not come up on auto complete, not being a registered address.

Locknaw Smithy youtube channel confidently claimed to simply put your address in on the royal mail website, put up a postbox and then order a bunch of junk mail to get the postie used to sending to your address and job done. Most of the comments replied that this doesn't work though and royal mail would complain about it not being registered with the council as mentioned above.

So is it officially allowed to have a postal address for somewhere you don't live and just work for in the week for exmaple with a postbox at the bottom of the track and despite whether it is officially allowed does it work?

Funny you mentioned it,I saw a post box nailed to a gate post and said to the Mrs , I had never seen that before