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Well, always if there's a street that was put down facing like that. Commonplace in new towns laid down over very large areas. In the UK, oh wow, you will enco

Well, always if there's a street that was put down facing like that. Commonplace in new towns laid down over very large areas. In the UK, oh wow, you will encounter some weird numbering issues. I live on the corner of a street in a very complex, 400 year old area, and I am forever leaning out of the window to shout instructions to utterly bemused couriers.

swarnie 2y ago
28 being next door to 47 at the end of a cul-de-sac can really mess with people. Also on older estates where spare green spaces have been used up by additional houses so you end up with 21,23,25,25A, 25B. The UK can be weird....
- ajb 2y ago
  There's a gap in one of the streets where I lived, which is where the houses were bombed during WWII and the council decided to put in a park instead. Missing numbers don't normally cause any confusion, except that I had a beggar come round once or twice claiming to be a neighbour with an emergency - and they gave one of the numbers that didn't exist.
- throw46365 2y ago
  Right. And if you live in some regularly redeveloped bit of a town that grew in the Georgian era you can end up with clusters of houses that have almost no discernible pattern left over; I live in such a house. The naming around here is astonishingly complex, such that if I explain it too much I would identify where I live. (I have three physical neighbours -- that is, I share walls with them. And we are on three different roads, legally speaking) The plus side is that as you get to know the couriers who you've helped, you begin to understand that your packages will never go missing. There is an Amazon driver who smiles from ear-to-ear when he delivers for me, and I even get good service from Evri. I move soon, and since I'm the only person here who works from home who has a clear view of where all the delivery drivers get out of their vehicles wearing a confused look, I expect parcel delivery accuracy to drop for my neighbours when I'm gone.
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jcalx 2y ago
Reminds me of finding the closest pair of houses in the UK with the same address: https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/
jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Ireland dealt with this problem in sledgehammer-fashion back in 2015. Every house gets a unique postal code that resolves to a set of co-ordinates. Somewhat useful for couriers, since a large number of houses are neither numbered or named, but the post office will know who lives where. I say somewhat, because they will often not use it when it's given.

swarnie 2y ago

28 being next door to 47 at the end of a cul-de-sac can really mess with people. Also on older estates where spare green spaces have been used up by additional houses so you end up with 21,23,25,25A, 25B. The UK can be weird....

ajb 2y ago
There's a gap in one of the streets where I lived, which is where the houses were bombed during WWII and the council decided to put in a park instead. Missing numbers don't normally cause any confusion, except that I had a beggar come round once or twice claiming to be a neighbour with an emergency - and they gave one of the numbers that didn't exist.
throw46365 2y ago
Right. And if you live in some regularly redeveloped bit of a town that grew in the Georgian era you can end up with clusters of houses that have almost no discernible pattern left over; I live in such a house. The naming around here is astonishingly complex, such that if I explain it too much I would identify where I live. (I have three physical neighbours -- that is, I share walls with them. And we are on three different roads, legally speaking) The plus side is that as you get to know the couriers who you've helped, you begin to understand that your packages will never go missing. There is an Amazon driver who smiles from ear-to-ear when he delivers for me, and I even get good service from Evri. I move soon, and since I'm the only person here who works from home who has a clear view of where all the delivery drivers get out of their vehicles wearing a confused look, I expect parcel delivery accuracy to drop for my neighbours when I'm gone.
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jcalx 2y ago

Reminds me of finding the closest pair of houses in the UK with the same address: https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/ https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/

jimbobthrowawy 2y ago

Ireland dealt with this problem in sledgehammer-fashion back in 2015. Every house gets a unique postal code that resolves to a set of co-ordinates. Somewhat useful for couriers, since a large number of houses are neither numbered or named, but the post office will know who lives where. I say somewhat, because they will often not use it when it's given.