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I find it ludicrous that we’re still not using GPS coordinates as addresses. My address would look something like First Last Street # or Building Name
by why-oh-why 7y ago
I find it ludicrous that we’re still not using GPS coordinates as addresses. My address would look something like
First Last
Street # or Building Name if any
18.0000 -7.0000
USA
Basically the “ZIP city, state” line should be replaced by coordinates; 4 decimals are precise to 11 meters.
And in less dense areas you might not need the second line either:
First Last
18.0000 -7.0000
Mail is not handled manually anymore so why act like it still is?
- pidg 7y agoHow does your mail get delivered? Mine still gets delivered by a human.
- why-oh-why 7y agoYour mailman follows a screen that tells them where to go.
- nemetroid 7y agoFrom the few mailmen I know, this is hardly the case.
- Traster 7y agoSo everyone in the North-East facing apartments in my apartment building have the same address?
- why-oh-why 7y agoYou didn’t read. The second line is still your regular address if you live in dense areas.
- Traster 7y agoI read it, you didn't describe what you think you described. You didn't say regular address, you said street - which doesn't tell you which apartment in a building you live in.
- aflag 7y agoHow does that help solving this fraud? More than one person lives in the same GPS location. If they don't track flat numbers, they still have the same problem.
- why-oh-why 7y agoYou didn’t read. The second line is still your regular address if you live in dense areas. I was just complaining about addresses and not this specific handling of ZIP codes by UK’s post.
- aflag 7y agoI thought I was missing something. If it doesn't solve the problem, why did you propose it then?
- stordoff 7y agoSeems like that would be difficult to remember - every postman I've known in the UK just learns the route. It would also be harder for people posting a letter to remember - it's easier to remember 6-7 characters than 12 digits, and less prone to errors. Get one character wrong in a postcode and it'll _probably_ still go to the right region, or be an obvious error and handled accordingly, and if you're written the full address you have the area/city to check. Mistaking 40.6971, -74.2598 for 41.6971, -74.2598 puts you 100km away, and 50.6971, -74.2598 1000km away, and there's no obvious way of telling that's wrong. We can do something similar to your system in the UK now - "10 SW1A 2AA" is a unique address, but we don't as it's less robust. "10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA" makes the intention clearer, both if there is an error when writing ("10 Downng Street, Lendon, W1A 2AA" - we can make a fair assumption, particularly if the name indicates it's the same as other mail going there) or if it is damaged in transit ("10 Downing [Unreadable], London, SW-- 2A-").