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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-sp
by 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 agoThe 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.