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Even in industrialized countries like the USA, I have shipped products to "Gas Station, Small Town, Kansas". This was very hard to put into the shipping softwa
by gregpilling 11y ago
Even in industrialized countries like the USA, I have shipped products to "Gas Station, Small Town, Kansas". This was very hard to put into the shipping software, but finally it worked.
I spoke to the customer on the phone, and he said "You can't miss it, it's the only gas station for 20 miles" . Surprised me that it worked to get them their stuff, but I guess they do it all the time.
- logfromblammo 11y agoA lot of counties, particularly the rectangular ones, define addresses throughout the entire county by establishing a block size (like 1/8 mile), counting the number of blocks in one direction from the origin point of the county, and multiplying by 100 to get the address number. So if state highway 50 runs north-south, in a county where the origin point is the county courthouse, and the gas station on it is 8.6 miles north of the courthouse, its address would be "6880 N Hwy 50" or "6881 N Hwy 50", depending on which side of the road it was on. If the farm supply is 9.2 miles north of the courthouse, it would be "7360 N Hwy 50". If your road has curves, you just switch the direction letter between N, S, E, or W. Sometimes a county will set the address origin point as the southwest corner, so there are only north and east addresses. This system of addressing owes a lot to the Jefferson grid system of the Public Land Survey System.