Free Postcode Lottery
There is nothing better than the chance to grab some free cash. Over the next few posts I’ll be sharing some of my favourite websites that offer a free lottery draw – basically you can randomly win a cash prize. The first website I’m going to tell you about is Free Postcode Lottery.
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The name pretty much explains what the site is all about. You register with your email address and postcode and from that point you are entered into their 4 daily draws.
Main Draw
The daily jackpot for the main draw starts at a HUGE £150 and rolls over each day that it isn’t claimed. At 12pm each day one postcode that has entered the draw is drawn randomly and everyone who is registered at that postcode will win a share of the prize; so if you’re the only person registered you’ll win it all but if you are one of 10 entries you will win a tenth of it.
The biggest win so far has been £904.02 and the biggest miss has been £750, as mentioned you have to actually visit the site in order to claim your winnings – it isn’t automatically paid out.
Survey Draw
The survey draw involves a little more work than the others as it requires you to answer a few survey questions every couple of days, these are quick and simple. The pot for this draw starts at £75 and rolls over each day if unclaimed.
Stackpot
As well as the main prize draw and the survey draw, there is also a chance to win a smaller pot of money with the stackpot. This draw is done twice a day, at 9am and 9pm, and offers several registered postcodes the chance to win a £10 prize.
Mini Draw
This draw is hidden away at the bottom of the main page, between 6pm and midnight every night a postcode is drawn and one registered user at that postcode can claim a £20 prize.
Bonus and referral scheme
Every day that you visit the Free Postcode Lottery website you are credited with a 1p bonus which is paid out to you upon winning, over time this can add up to a nice little bonus when your postcode is picked. You can also refer friends/family and receive 1p for each sign up and then everyday they visit the site up to a maximum of 20p bonus. There’s a maximum number of 1000 referrals and a cap of £200 on your bonus earnings. You’ll get a personalised link which you can then share via social media, text, email etc.
Unfortunately I haven’t personally won from this site as of yet but I am forever hopeful. This site is certainly worth the daily check, or twice daily check for the stackpot draw.
Have you won from Free Postcode Lottery? If so let me know in the comments – I’d love to hear from winners.
In the United Kingdom, the postcode lottery is the unequal provision of services such as healthcare, education and insurance prices depending on the geographic area or postcode. Postcodes can directly affect the services an area can obtain, such as insurance prices. Despite having many non-postal uses, postcodes are only determined based on Royal Mail operations and bear little relation to local government boundaries. More broadly, there is an unequal provision of services around the country, especially in public services,[1] such as access to cancer drugs in the healthcare system[2] or quality of education.[3] These are more likely to be a result of local budgets and decision-making than actual postcodes.
Postcodes were devised solely for the purposes of sorting and directing mail and rarely coincide with political boundaries. However, over time they have become a geographical reference in their own right with postcodes and postcode groups becoming synonymous with certain towns and districts. Further to this, the postcode has been used by organisations for other applications including government statistics, marketing, calculation of car and household insurance premiums and credit referencing.
Changing postcodes[edit]
There are several groups, mostly on the fringes of major population centres, who are affected in one way or another by the associations of their postcode. There is a movement in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to change the first two characters of their postcodes from SL to WM for vanity, so as not to be associated with Slough.[4] A businessman in Ilford wishes to have the postcode district of IG1 changed to E19 as he claims customers do not realise his business is based in London.[5]
Some residents of West Heath in SE2 asked to have their postcodes changed to that of adjacent Bexleyheath, citing higher insurance premiums as reason to change.[6] Some residents of Kingston Vale in SW15 wish to have their postcodes changed to adjacent Kingston upon Thames for the same reasons[citation needed].
In all these cases Royal Mail has said that there is 'virtually no hope' of changing the postcode, referring to their policy of changing postcodes only to match changes in their operations.[7] Under this policy residents of the Wirral Peninsula had their postcodes changed from the L (Liverpool) to CH (Chester) group when a new sorting office was opened.[8]
Some postcode areas straddle England's borders with Wales and Scotland. Examples of such postcodes include CH4, SY10, NP16 and TD15. This has led to British Sky Broadcasting subscribers receiving the wrong BBC and ITV regions, and newly licensed radio amateurs being given incorrect call signs.
Extended use of postcodes[edit]
Postcomm says the following regarding the extended use of postcodes and the Postcode Address File (PAF):
Many organisations – including new postal operators, banks, insurance companies and others offering to deliver goods to your door — have a need for this information. It would be very time-consuming and costly for anyone to try and replicate the list, so Royal Mail licenses PAF data, for a fee, allowing others to use it. ... Although we have a role in ensuring that PAF is managed well, Postcomm does not intervene to resolve disputes involving individual postcodes. A postcode is a routing instruction, allowing a postal operator to sort and deliver mail accurately and efficiently. It is not necessarily a geographically accurate description of where a property is located.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Butler, Patrick (2000-11-09). 'Q&A: Postcode lottery'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^Devlin, Kate (2008-09-08). 'Healthcare postcode lottery means patients losing out on cancer treatments'. The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^Garner, Richard (2009-10-19). 'Postcode lottery still determines degree achievement'. The Independent. London. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^'England 'Snobs' want to slough off postcode'. BBC News. 2003-01-17. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^Scrivens, Louise (2005-04-05). 'England London The power of the postcode'. BBC News. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^'Cracking The Codes Not Easy (from This Is Local London)'. Thisislocallondon.co.uk. 2002-03-12. Archived from the original on 2008-05-26. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^Scrivens, Louise (2005-04-05). 'UK England London The power of the postcode'. BBC News. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^'Postman Pat Gets L Of A Row Off His Chest — This Is Wirral'. Archive.thisiswirral.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
- ^Postal Services Commission (March 2009). 'Royal Mail's Postcode Address File'(PDF). Postcomm. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2009-09-03. Retrieved 2009-08-03.