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@Rod_Munch
It works - but it's a bit weird. When you start typing the first 3-4 characters in it immediately jumps to a list of options e.g. 'N10 London' and won't let you finish typing the rest. If you click on N10 it asks for the house number (fine, if you know what it is, otherwise you just have to guess!) and then the street name, or scroll through a massive list to find it - so if you don't actually know the street name you are a bit screwed.
You can force it to go back and let you type the extra characters in the postcode search (you have to do it several times to put the whole thing in) but then it tells you that the postcode is not recognised!
IIRC I read something about the default map not having the rights to use a 'full' postcode search (so only first 4 characters will be recognised - hence the weirdness). Maybe the OSM version works better (I haven't tried) given there seems to be no one complaining about this except me.
TL;DR .. it works fine providing you also know the street name (and preferably the house number)..