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There are entire counties here in the US with the same zip code. Varying by miles. So yeah, it’s not a reliable source of location for delivery purposes without
by gabereiser 3y ago
There are entire counties here in the US with the same zip code. Varying by miles. So yeah, it’s not a reliable source of location for delivery purposes without a complete address.
- wlonkly 3y agoIt fails in the other direction in Canada, where a specific postal code works like a 9+4 zip code, in that it might identify one side of one block of a street, so it doesn't give you much additional privacy through precision loss anyway.
- gabereiser 3y agoThe US does that too in most places. 5+4 zip codes. It's still not enough and suffers the same precision issues and we (the USA) are woefully ill-prepared for the housing build out boom that will happen in the next decade. We need a better system. We will exhaust our zip codes like we have our IPv4 addresses.
- wlonkly 3y agoOops, right, 5+4, not 9+4. Counting is hard. But yeah, what I meant to express was that Canada doesn't have a lower-precision version in regular use.
- bombcar 3y agoZip codes don't need to identify buildings, they need to identify post offices (and with +4, mail carrier routes). That's a much smaller number.