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Change the City of York's YO postcode letters to YR or YK.

Submitted on Friday 8th January 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 20th January 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change the City of York's YO postcode letters to YR or YK.

Petition Details

The City of York comes under the YO postcode (YO1, YO10, YO19, YO23, YO24, YO26 to YO62) but other areas like Filey, Bridlington, Selby, Thirsk, Scarborough, Malton, Pickering, Whitby and Driffield also have the YO postcode. Therefore, the city must have its own postcode letters such as YR or YK.

Additional Information

I'd like the Government to consider this request as York is a city in its own right. Harrogate has its own letters under HG as does Huddersfield with HD (which is not a city). Therefore, allow York to have either YK or YR.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can't accept your petition because the UK Government aren't responsible for the issue you raise. Allocation of postcodes is the responsibility of Royal Mail.

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