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My mother, grandmother and sister all live in Garden City, ID - which is a small little area enveloped by Boise, ID on all sides. Every piece of mail they get h
by snuxoll 9y ago
My mother, grandmother and sister all live in Garden City, ID - which is a small little area enveloped by Boise, ID on all sides. Every piece of mail they get has Boise, ID listed on it - and any time they give someone their address they do the same.
Why on Earth we have zipcodes but still add the city/state is beyond me.
- ghaff 9y agoEncoding redundancy in because of bad handwriting, smudged labels, etc. is generally a good idea.
- FireBeyond 9y agoYou also have the concept in some situations of 'vanity addressing'. I worked for a water utility in Melbourne Australia. There were (for but one example), two adjacent suburbs, Box Hill and Mont Albert, the latter of which had a perceived prestige. We'd always have some people, and more so as you reached the border of the suburbs, who'd give their address as Mont Albert, but with Box Hill's post code. This allowed the system to be functional for our purposes without arguing with the customer. Is it a problem we should have to deal with or feel compelled to? No, but that was the decision made, in this case.