People's Postcode Lottery
Posted : admin On 3/31/2022People's Postcode Trust is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC040387 and is a company limited by guarantee (356549). People's Postcode Trust is regulated by the Gambling Commission under account number 18971. Postcode Lottery; Results; The latest People's Postcode Lottery results can be found here every day. Use the 'Prize Information' button for any date to view more information about the draw, plus a winners' map showing where in the UK the winning postcodes are located. Six Colchester neighbours are sharing a 'life-changing' prize of £210,000 won in the People's Postcode Lottery. Residents in CO4 0NY, in the St John's area of the town, were selected as the lucky.
Six Colchester neighbours are sharing a 'life-changing' prize of £210,000 won in the People's Postcode Lottery.
People's Postcode Trust is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC040387 and is a company limited by guarantee (356549). People's Postcode Trust is regulated by the Gambling Commission under account number 18971.Players must be 16 or over.
Residents in CO4 0NY, in the St John's area of the town, were selected as the lucky winners of the draw announced on Tuesday.
Five neighbours picked up £30,000 each - but one player secured £60,000, thanks to playing with two tickets.
Richard Holland, 52, was the lucky double player who was left 'speechless' after he found out he won £60,000 in a call with People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Jeff Brazier.
Mr Holland, who was joined on the call with his wife Tracy, said he was planning to spend his winnings on a house renovation and a holiday later in the year.
He said: 'I think we’re both completely overwhelmed by this. Things like this just don’t happen to us and after the year we’ve had this is really a great start to 2021.'
Another winner looking to use their cash for a holiday was 36-year-old Caroline Barnes, who said she would spend her £30,000 on a trip with her partner Matt.
Caroline Barnes has plans for a holiday with her partner Matt- Credit: People's Postcode Lottery
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She said: 'A holiday is definitely top of my list, but I’d also like to treat myself to a designer handbag as well.'
Doreen Blair, 76, who was joined by her 65-year-old husband Nigel when she discovered she had won, said she was delighted to hear her neighbours had also won.
Doreen Blair and her husband Nigel after finding out their prize- Credit: People's Postcode Lottery
She said: 'This is honestly life changing money for us. This is absolutely wonderful.
'We have a lovely little community so it’s just great to hear that some of our neighbours have won too.'
Colin Freeman, 78, said he and his 76-year-old wife Jan would use the £30,000 they secured to help their only granddaughter, Sophie-Kate, fund a trip to New Zealand.
Colin Freeman and his wife Jan said they would help fund their granddaughter's New Zealand trip- Credit: People's Postcode Lottery
Mr Freeman said: 'This is amazing, I feel so lucky. This year has definitely started better than we thought it would.'
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Two other winners from Colchester have chosen to remain anonymous, but their prizes will be paid directly into their bank accounts.
People's Postcode Lottery ambassador Jeff Brazier presented the neighbours with their prizes- Credit: People's Postcode Lottery
After telling the neighbours they had won the prize, Mr Brazier, who is from Tiptree, said: 'It sounds like there will be a few corks being popped around Colchester this evening.'
In the United Kingdom, the postcode lottery is the unequal provision of services such as healthcare, education and insurance prices depending on the geographic area or postcode. Postcodes can directly affect the services an area can obtain, such as insurance prices. Despite having many non-postal uses, postcodes are only determined based on Royal Mail operations and bear little relation to local government boundaries. More broadly, there is an unequal provision of services around the country, especially in public services,[1] such as access to cancer drugs in the healthcare system[2] or quality of education.[3] These are more likely to be a result of local budgets and decision-making than actual postcodes.
Postcodes were devised solely for the purposes of sorting and directing mail and rarely coincide with political boundaries. However, over time they have become a geographical reference in their own right with postcodes and postcode groups becoming synonymous with certain towns and districts. Further to this, the postcode has been used by organisations for other applications including government statistics, marketing, calculation of car and household insurance premiums and credit referencing.
Changing postcodes[edit]
There are several groups, mostly on the fringes of major population centres, who are affected in one way or another by the associations of their postcode. There is a movement in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to change the first two characters of their postcodes from SL to WM for vanity, so as not to be associated with Slough.[4] A businessman in Ilford wishes to have the postcode district of IG1 changed to E19 as he claims customers do not realise his business is based in London.[5]
Some residents of West Heath in SE2 asked to have their postcodes changed to that of adjacent Bexleyheath, citing higher insurance premiums as reason to change.[6] Some residents of Kingston Vale in SW15 wish to have their postcodes changed to adjacent Kingston upon Thames for the same reasons[citation needed].
In all these cases Royal Mail has said that there is 'virtually no hope' of changing the postcode, referring to their policy of changing postcodes only to match changes in their operations.[7] Under this policy residents of the Wirral Peninsula had their postcodes changed from the L (Liverpool) to CH (Chester) group when a new sorting office was opened.[8]
Some postcode areas straddle England's borders with Wales and Scotland. Examples of such postcodes include CH4, SY10, NP16 and TD15. This has led to British Sky Broadcasting subscribers receiving the wrong BBC and ITV regions, and newly licensed radio amateurs being given incorrect call signs.
Extended use of postcodes[edit]
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Postcomm says the following regarding the extended use of postcodes and the Postcode Address File (PAF):
Many organisations – including new postal operators, banks, insurance companies and others offering to deliver goods to your door — have a need for this information. It would be very time-consuming and costly for anyone to try and replicate the list, so Royal Mail licenses PAF data, for a fee, allowing others to use it. ... Although we have a role in ensuring that PAF is managed well, Postcomm does not intervene to resolve disputes involving individual postcodes. A postcode is a routing instruction, allowing a postal operator to sort and deliver mail accurately and efficiently. It is not necessarily a geographically accurate description of where a property is located.[9]
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References[edit]
- ^Butler, Patrick (2000-11-09). 'Q&A: Postcode lottery'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^Devlin, Kate (2008-09-08). 'Healthcare postcode lottery means patients losing out on cancer treatments'. The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^Garner, Richard (2009-10-19). 'Postcode lottery still determines degree achievement'. The Independent. London. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^'England 'Snobs' want to slough off postcode'. BBC News. 2003-01-17. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^Scrivens, Louise (2005-04-05). 'England London The power of the postcode'. BBC News. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^'Cracking The Codes Not Easy (from This Is Local London)'. Thisislocallondon.co.uk. 2002-03-12. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^Scrivens, Louise (2005-04-05). 'UK England London The power of the postcode'. BBC News. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^'Postman Pat Gets L Of A Row Off His Chest — This Is Wirral'. Archive.thisiswirral.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^Postal Services Commission (March 2009). 'Royal Mail's Postcode Address File'(PDF). Postcomm. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2009-09-03. Retrieved 2009-08-03.