On a sidenote: To what extent does a postal code become a requirement to ‘uniquely’ determine an adress?
The way I understand it, the dutch system adds a layer of redundancy to adresses: If you have the postal code, it’s understandable without the municipality name. If you have the municipality name, you should be fine without the postal code too. And we just try to avoid having the same street name within a postal code, which is not that hard if they more-or-less match the municipality borders.
It’s just a tool that makes work for the postal offices a bit easier, and a written postal code is probably easier to OCR-scan then a written out municipality name. Beyond that, please let us not exaggerate the value of what postal codes are or mean. If BPosts decides to have a messy system for themselves, but mail eventually gets where it needs to be - why fuss about it?
