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Longitude and latitude would for many instances save a lot of time and trouble, all one needs is a map, even a paper one and a human at the delivery company cou

Longitude and latitude would for many instances save a lot of time and trouble, all one needs is a map, even a paper one and a human at the delivery company could work out before hand if the location is near a valid address. I reside in rural area in North Australia. Most companies and even the govt went with google location services. I see plenty of lost souls on the back road near me, I know why, google location has the address another few miles from where they actually are. They should use apple's service. The rural area around me ten years ago could count on to the door delivery, it probably relied on someone looking at an online map. Present day as most do rely on google location which in my area is so broken, (this is separate to their own map which is often right) most of the deliveries are now left with the nearest local post office or a store that agreed to be a delivery point - while customers are still billed for a home delivery.

nradov 4y ago
Delivery companies aren't going to have a human check the coordinates of every delivery address. It's totally impractical for their business model.
- anenefan 4y ago
  To be clear, when referring to the paper option, I'm not referring to mail and great quantities of it in one delivery past the point where a route has too many unique streets or roads for a person to recall with much accuracy. However a person could digitally, using gps, the right script and cross referencing with say Apple's (location) maps, easily check the gps and address matches a known address, and perhaps if they have a reporting system, if there's address nearby that's had problems with deliveries previously. Those that don't require move scrutiny to discover the right place and better path to get there. As I mentioned in the earlier dupe, I actually spent 6 months or so in my youth delivering white goods, I'm aware of some of the pitfalls with poor instructions. Most of the time the gps data might be irrelevant, we have road markers now eg [1] [2], but there would be times when it's very important for this information to be passed on to the delivery company. Case in point for non local delivery companies, when access down a no through side road is near impossible for bigger trucks to navigate some twisting and or steep incline to drop off a delivery only to find there's not enough room to turn around. [1]https://www.hinchinbrook.qld.gov.au/economic-development-tourism-planning/planning-and-development/rural-addressing/ https://www.hinchinbrook.qld.gov.au/economic-development-tou... [2]https://icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/addressing/standards-rural-and-urban-addressing-as4819 https://icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/addressing/standards-rural-an...

nradov 4y ago

Delivery companies aren't going to have a human check the coordinates of every delivery address. It's totally impractical for their business model.

anenefan 4y ago
To be clear, when referring to the paper option, I'm not referring to mail and great quantities of it in one delivery past the point where a route has too many unique streets or roads for a person to recall with much accuracy. However a person could digitally, using gps, the right script and cross referencing with say Apple's (location) maps, easily check the gps and address matches a known address, and perhaps if they have a reporting system, if there's address nearby that's had problems with deliveries previously. Those that don't require move scrutiny to discover the right place and better path to get there. As I mentioned in the earlier dupe, I actually spent 6 months or so in my youth delivering white goods, I'm aware of some of the pitfalls with poor instructions. Most of the time the gps data might be irrelevant, we have road markers now eg [1] [2], but there would be times when it's very important for this information to be passed on to the delivery company. Case in point for non local delivery companies, when access down a no through side road is near impossible for bigger trucks to navigate some twisting and or steep incline to drop off a delivery only to find there's not enough room to turn around. [1]https://www.hinchinbrook.qld.gov.au/economic-development-tourism-planning/planning-and-development/rural-addressing/ https://www.hinchinbrook.qld.gov.au/economic-development-tou... [2]https://icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/addressing/standards-rural-and-urban-addressing-as4819 https://icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/addressing/standards-rural-an...