IG postcode area

Ilford postcode area
IG
Postcode area	IG
Postcode area name	Ilford
Post towns	6
Postcode districts	11
Postcode sectors	35
Postcodes (live)	6,039
Postcodes (total)	9,460
Statistics as at February 2012

Postcode district boundaries: Bing / Google

The IG postcode area, also known as the Ilford postcode area, is a group of 11 postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of six post towns. These postcode districts cover parts of eastern Greater London and southwest Essex. Inward mail for the IG postcode area is sorted at the Romford Mail Centre, with the E and RM postcode area mail.

The area served includes much of the London Borough of Redbridge, the western part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the southwestern part of the Epping Forest district of Essex, while the western part of IG8 covers a small part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

The 'IG' is used instead of 'IL', as the latter could be confused with '11' or 'LL'. It is sometimes said that the G stands for the last letter in Barking, which itself is situated in IG11.

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

In April 2005, a local businessman Wilson Chowdhry started a campaign to have IG1 postcodes changed to London E19, on the pretext that IG1 is not always recognised as a 'London postcode'. He argued that so doing would help local businesses. A Royal Mail spokesman, however, said campaigners in Ilford had "virtually no hope" of changing their postcode. This had previously been raised by the then Greater London Council politician Serge Lourie in the 1970s and similarly rejected. Ilford had been removed from the London postal district in 1866.

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