Royal Mail to decide on future of Humberside
IT'S a bone of contention for many residents.
People have long complained about receiving letters post-marked Humberside, even though such a place does not exist.
Now campaigners are hoping the term will be dropped forever from the Royal Mail's official postal database.
Commissioners have announced they will make a decision on its use by the end of the year.
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Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, who has campaigned on the issue, is optimistic Royal Mail will take action.
He said: "We are not there yet, but I am very hopeful we will get the right result.
"For years, people who live in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull and across the Humber in North and North East Lincolnshire have simply not understood why this has taken so long to put right.
"I know many of my constituents will be delighted if it is finally decided to rectify this anomaly and drop Humberside forever."
Councillor Stephen Parnaby, leader of East Riding Council, is hopeful that common sense will prevail.
He said: "I too am delighted that it is being taken seriously, as many people have contacted me to express their utter frustration that Humberside is still being used in addresses after all these years."
In 2008, Postcomm, the independent regulator for UK postal services, announced it was holding a consultation seeking views on a code of practice to govern changes to Royal Mail's postcode address file.
At that time Mr Stuart launched the Humberside Must Go campaign and called for Postcomm to recommend the deletion of North and South Humberside from postal databases.
Royal Mail will consider Postcomm's recommendations in its review of counties and changes to its code, which then have to be approved by the regulator.
Philip Groves, senior associate at Postcomm, said Royal Mail has promised to review the matter.
He said: "Royal Mail has proposed to handle this question outside the immediate review of the code of practice.
"Our commissioners will consider the proposed changes to the code, including Royal Mail's approach on the issue of county information and we hope to publish a decision this year.
A spokesperson for Royal Mail said: "Royal Mail welcomes Postcomm's public consultation and awaits feedback for consideration into the code of practice, governing changes to the Postcode Address File which includes the use of counties in addresses."
Comments
by PETE, EAST HULL
Thursday, November 19 2009, 8:31PM
“Poor Peter West Hull you are such a mixed up person who could do with history and geography education. According to you it was Eddie Waring who named us as Humbersiders. I am quite sure that when the Humber Estuary was named no one was known as a Humbersider, North, South or whatever. This is something that you have childlessly locked onto and will not let go, just like a baby with it's favourite blanket. Grow up and let Humberside go, no matter how much you whinge and whine it won't come back. You're like a poor lost soul searching for an identity. Did you check your Birth Certificate to see where you were born? Uuuuummmmm!”
by Peter, West Hull
Thursday, November 19 2009, 10:26AM
“Poor Peter East Hull you do not appear to understand the difference between geography and politics. The geographical areas of north & south Humberside came into existance when the Estuary was named the Humber. So I was born a Kingstonian/Hullensian/Hullite, a north Humbersider and a Yorkshireman. The short term political county of Humberside is irrelevant to the fact I was born in North Humberside.”
by PETE, EAST HULL
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 9:05PM
“Peter, West Hull: if you have your original Birth Certificate it will tell you where you were born and it wasn't in Humberside as it did not exist until 1974. It's a bit like saying you were born on Victoria Dock prior to 1974 which hadn't been built.”
by Peter, West Hull
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 8:58PM
“How do you think the name of the Unitary Authority of HUMBERSIDE came about, it was the drawing together of the north of the Humber Estuary and the south of the Estuary. Any one listening to Eddy Waring commentating on Rugby matches in the 60s involving either Hull FC or Hull KR would have heard him refering to them as North Humberside teams. As I said before I was born in North Humberside - a geographic fact not fiction.”
by PETE, EAST HULL
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 8:51PM
“Prior to 1974 Hull was known as The City and County of Kingston Upon Hull.”
by PETE, EAST HULL
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 8:46PM
“Peter, West Hull: if you are in your 60s you cannot have been born in North Humberside. It did not exist until 1974.”
by Easty, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 8:08PM
“Hull`s always been in Yorkshire only the council authorities have changed.
For those who wish to ignore history(look it up on the net). Yorkshire has three ridings East, West and North. Sheffield maybe in South Yorkshire but only as a council authority, it belongs in the west riding, South Yorkshire does not exist.
Hull has and always will be Yorkshire, before Humberside there was the east Yorkshire council for Hull. It`s as much a Yorkshire city as York and Leeds. The sooner all reference to Humberside is removed the better!”
by Paul, West Yorkshire
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 7:00PM
“Seriously, I think North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Kingston upon Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire have much more economic clout as a collective, they should have kept it...
To add further confusion, the identity of Humberside still exists through Humberside Police, Humberside Fire and Rescue, Humberside Airport and BBC Radio Humberside, all with prominence. Even the local BBC news is identified as 'Yorkshire and The Humber' which basically means 'Humberside', the rest of Yorkshire has its own regional news.”
by Merlin, East Yorkshire
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 6:46PM
“Hull is actually Kingston...Kingstown. As for Humberside they can stick it where the sun don't shine. The people want it to be the East Riding of Yorshire or East Yorkshire for short. And for those polkiticians that it seems failed to follow through, get your act together pronto or face the consequences in the ballot box.”
by Jamie, K-u-hull
Wednesday, November 18 2009, 6:35PM
“Just to add more fuel to the fire... there's actually no such place as Hull... never has been, so can the Royal Mail start to use Kingston-upon-Hull and give the city its correct title.”