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Definitely not unique to Japan, but several towers here have their own zip code, and there is at least one building I know where the building has several zip co
by rtpg 4y ago
Definitely not unique to Japan, but several towers here have their own zip code, and there is at least one building I know where the building has several zip codes (each for various floors of the building).
People take this and extrapolate to think that we should just be writing very long zip codes for everything, but the wonderful nature of writing out addresses is that they have a lot of possible error correcting. The one thing that is still pretty haphazard is the street number, let's get some ECC checks in there!
- easytiger 4y agoA building in the UK with about 300 apartments will prob have around 8 postal codes
- ben_w 4y agoI've been in at least two apartments blocks that had multiple post codes, but that's not hugely unusual as a UK post code is (to a first approximation[0]) a street identifier, so the high street has one, the side street has another, and the rear parking might also be its own. In one case, this meant my front door and back door had different post codes, even though it was a 35 square metre one bed apartment. [0] except when it isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdo...