[1] Including the correct post town in the address increases the chance of a letter or parcel being delivered on time.
As such they often group a small minority of neighbourhoods, streets or houses together with a main settlement in a different county, area of local government or administration (including healthcare trust), constituency, European statistical region and/or traditional parish.
For example, the postcode sector EH14 5 is split between three post towns: Juniper Green, Currie and Balerno.
Traditionally only, where a place such as a village was served by a post town entirely distinct from its location, the word "Via" or "Near" ("Nr.")
For example: However, the Royal Mail discourages this usage[1] because their optical character recognition technology and Mailsort lookup tables check for the post town at the beginning of a line if the postcode is missing, unreadable or incorrect.