Royal Mail staff help to improve sat nav mapping Credit: Press Association
The Royal Mail in East Anglia is trialling a new device to map the exact location of homes and businesses in a move which could improve satellite navigation systems in cars.
If it is successful the project will be rolled out across the whole country.
Managers to roll the project out across the UK Credit: Press Association
Postal workers will be mapping the GPS longitude, latitude and altitude co-ordinates of every property in East Anglia.
A letter posted in Cambridge travelled thousands of miles and took two months to get to its destination, less than one mile away. Shamim Ahmed from Mowbray Road sent a letter to Ridgefield Primary School, but when it finally arrived it had a postmark from Thailand.