E postcode area continue to be commonly classed as one 'district'. The E postcode area contains two non-geographic postcode districts for high-volume business users, E77 and E98. The Eastern District Office is on Whitechapel Road and was the eastern terminus for the former London Post Office Railway, which has been mothballed since 2003. The railway ran to the Paddington Head District Sorting Office. The E20 postcode has been used fictionally as the postcode on the television soap-opera series "EastEnders" since 1985. However, it became a real postcode in 2011, when it was created from within the E15 postcode for the new Olympic Park,
Barry Clark (EastEnders) as Mr. Humphries in the situation comedy, "Are You Being Served?". Although "EastEnders" was not the first UK, televised soap to include a gay character — Channel 4's "Brookside" had that distinction — the portrayal of an openly gay male — let alone a homosexual relationship — on a prime time, pre-watershed BBC programme was unheard of before Colin and Barry's introduction. The licence-funded BBC held a far greater audience share than the commercially-funded Channel 4, thus public reaction to "EastEnders"' gay characters was much stronger and more widely documented in the British press. Colin was a middle-classed, well-meaning, slightly