IT seems to me that there has been something of a dearth of proper triviality in the Letters Pages recently. I should like to address the matter by proposing the naming and shaming of the database that insists that all mail addressed to G postcodes should be labelled "Glasgow, Lanarkshire". This designation is always wrong on two counts and often on three.
First, Glasgow is not in Lanarkshire and has not been so for a very long time. Secondly, the county of Lanarkshire ceased to exist with the appearance of regions in 1975. It was not replaced by a single county of that name in the 1996 breakup of the regions. Thirdly many people with G postcodes live in local authorities outside Glasgow.
Only rarely will a database allow manual corrections to be made. The robots have taken over. Little Britain (appropriately enough) summed it up well: "Computer says 'No'."
Gilbert MacKay,
Glebe Lane, Newton Mearns.
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