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Clearing out some old stuff from my grandparents, grandpa had at some point received a letter, from Stockholm, to their summer house in the woods addressed

Clearing out some old stuff from my grandparents, grandpa had at some point received a letter, from Stockholm, to their summer house in the woods addressed Thorvald The forest by <tiny village in Sweden>

blakesterz 4y ago
I've seen things done like that here in the US also. Something like... First Name, Last Name Blue house down by the creek, next to a yellow shed State, Town, Zip It works, sometimes. I think it's up to the postal carrier if they want to really try or not.
- kjs3 4y ago
  That's why it pays to be extra nice to your postal carrier. I've gotten a couple of packages delivered where the international sender clearly had no idea what a US postal address looked like, my name was completely mangled, but the zip code got it to the local post office and my carrier apparently said "there's only one person on the route who gets packages like that".
sigio 4y ago
I remember from one of my first jobs, we received a vacation postcard addressed to: - Dear friends - Lange voorhuid - Holland .... Lange voorhuid was a mis-spelling of the streetname: "Lange Voorhout", which is someone unique to The Hague... but didn't have a housenumber (and it's a long street). Still, the postcard arrived at our company before the sender got back from vacation.
- Doxin 4y ago
  The dutch postal service is honestly kinda impressive with this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure they keep a name-address database or some such, because mis-addressing a letter will still almost always get delivered correctly based on the name. IIRC it's fairly recently they stopped delivering to non-postal addresses. i.e. until recently you could address something to "The green house next to the church" and it'd get there.
lb1lf 4y ago
My parents, living in rural Norway, received a postcard simply addressed to their first names, Norway. It turned out they were the only couple with that exact combination of first names, and someone at the Norwegian Post were bored enough to ask the Folkeregisteret (the database in which all Norwegians are listed) whether there were any Jorunns living with any Ingolfs anywhere in the country.
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miohtama 4y ago
I once received a post card from my little sister as she was backpacking in Australia. It only had my name and "Finland" as the address. The card came with a special sticker "This item passed through the post office special mail resolution." Sounds like someone had a boring day in a work in the post.

blakesterz 4y ago

I've seen things done like that here in the US also. Something like... First Name, Last Name Blue house down by the creek, next to a yellow shed State, Town, Zip It works, sometimes. I think it's up to the postal carrier if they want to really try or not.

kjs3 4y ago
That's why it pays to be extra nice to your postal carrier. I've gotten a couple of packages delivered where the international sender clearly had no idea what a US postal address looked like, my name was completely mangled, but the zip code got it to the local post office and my carrier apparently said "there's only one person on the route who gets packages like that".

sigio 4y ago

I remember from one of my first jobs, we received a vacation postcard addressed to: - Dear friends - Lange voorhuid - Holland .... Lange voorhuid was a mis-spelling of the streetname: "Lange Voorhout", which is someone unique to The Hague... but didn't have a housenumber (and it's a long street). Still, the postcard arrived at our company before the sender got back from vacation.

Doxin 4y ago
The dutch postal service is honestly kinda impressive with this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure they keep a name-address database or some such, because mis-addressing a letter will still almost always get delivered correctly based on the name. IIRC it's fairly recently they stopped delivering to non-postal addresses. i.e. until recently you could address something to "The green house next to the church" and it'd get there.

lb1lf 4y ago

My parents, living in rural Norway, received a postcard simply addressed to their first names, Norway. It turned out they were the only couple with that exact combination of first names, and someone at the Norwegian Post were bored enough to ask the Folkeregisteret (the database in which all Norwegians are listed) whether there were any Jorunns living with any Ingolfs anywhere in the country.

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miohtama 4y ago

I once received a post card from my little sister as she was backpacking in Australia. It only had my name and "Finland" as the address. The card came with a special sticker "This item passed through the post office special mail resolution." Sounds like someone had a boring day in a work in the post.