Stamped: September 25th, 2006

In a flash of inspiration, NZ Post decided to change the postcodes for a lot of new Zealand’s mail delivery. And to solve the confusion, they installed a Very Flash Postcode Finder on their website.
According to NZ Post’s website, Seaview Road, Piha … does not exist. Or rather, it is not located in any of the following towns or cities:

• Piha
• Auckland
• Waitakere

Searching the very high-tech but not very accurate NZ Post PostCode Finder in order to get a correct address for your mail results in this:

If you think you live in the cities of Auckland or Waitakere, you’re sadly mistaken:

Luckily for them, Brad - our marvellous postman - refuses to acknowledge their denial of our existence. We still get our mail.

Update: NZ Post only recognise this address if I state it as being in New Lynn, 30km away.

If I give it correctly, stating the name of the actual town, NZ Post gets it wrong by 272km.