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I read through the entire list of falsehoods about addresses and I think I've got a few more broken assumtpions that weren't listed: * A property will have an
by Enginerrrd 6y ago
I read through the entire list of falsehoods about addresses and I think I've got a few more broken assumtpions that weren't listed:
* A property will have an address
(I live in a very rural area of CA where the roads have forked several times for many miles to get to a property and they are all unnamed private roads. People often just put down the APN and the nearest town (which might be several miles away) as their address. I deal with this one all the time. I routinely have to find their house for the first time. Good luck using GPS here, if you can't read a map, you're S.O.L. [And no, even trying to confirm that you are where you think you are with GPS on your phone is gonna be a challenge. For one, you're miles from cell reception so if you didn't save the map to your phone, you're screwed. For two, under heavy tree and cloud cover, you may not even get a GPS fix on a phone.])
* A recipient needs a name and address
My mother lived for a time in a very rural area nearby. She rode a BMW motorcycle and someone she met only briefly once successfully sent her a letter by simply drawing a BMW symbol as the name and address and affixing the nearest town.
* A person has a street address
Homeless and rural people regularly fail this one.