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I live in Łódź. Love receiving packages addressed to ??d? :)

Symbiote 2y ago
It goes both ways. I received a large delivery from Poland recently, and it was addressed to "K?benhavn", with similar mistakes in the street name.
troymc 2y ago
I wonder how many of those packages end up in Vada, Italy. Or Cody, Wyoming. Or Buda, Texas...
- jplrssn 2y ago
  I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.
  - mkotowski 2y ago
    I got curious if I can get data to answer that, and it seems so. Based on xlsx from [0], we got the following ??d? localities in Poland: 1 x Bądy, 1 x Brda, 5 x Buda, 120 x Budy, 4 x Dudy, 1 x Dydy, 1 x Gady, 1 x Judy, 1 x Kady, 1 x Kadź, 1 x Łada, 1 x Lady, 4 x Lądy, 2 x Łady, 1 x Lęda, 1 x Lody, 4 x Łódź, 1 x Nida, 1 x Reda, 1 x Redy, 1 x Redz, 74 x Ruda, 8 x Rudy, 12 x Sady, 2 x Zady, 2 x Żydy Certainly quite a lot to search for a lost package. [0]: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/188,wykaz-urzedowych-nazw-miejscowosci-i-ich-czesci https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/188,wykaz-urzedowych-nazw-mie...
    - jplrssn 2y ago
      Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?
      - schubart 2y ago
        Sounds like someone is getting ready for Advent of Code!
    - poincaredisk 2y ago
      Interestingly, Lady, Łady and Lądy will end up the same after the usual transliteration.
      - account42 2y ago
        That's (one reason) why postal codes exist. Dunno about Poland, but town names here are not unique to begin with.
      - ozornin 2y ago
        So, transliteration to "Lady", "?ady" and "L?dy" respectively seems to work even better in this case than "Lady"
    - yreg 2y ago
      Experienced postal workers most probably know well that ??d? represents a municipality with three non-ascii characters.
    - ctm92 2y ago
      Łódź seems to be the only one translating to ??d?, all others have normal ASCII characters in the places 1, 2 and 4
  - ygra 2y ago
    And the postal code.
jowea 2y ago
And the packages get there? Don't you put "Łódź (Lodz)" in the city field? Or the postal code takes care of the issue?
- pzduniak 2y ago
  Yep, postal code does all the work.
- rvba 2y ago
  You live in a boat? But how do they know on what sea?
  - ivanjermakov 2y ago
    Ironically, there are no big rivers in Łódź (anymore)
    - tomthe 2y ago
      anymore??
      - pzduniak 2y ago
        Sorry, I was thirsty. There were no "big" rivers, ever. More like springs. We have lots of subterranean water, so out of the 18 rivers we have in the city, 16 have their sources here [0]. They were used to power mills in the 19-20th century during the industrialization. Many of the rivers that used to go through the city center flow underground. I live close to the river Olechówka [1], which flows into a regulated reservoir that used to feed a mill - so the area is called Młynek, "Little Mill" :) [0] https://podwodnalodz.blogspot.com/2013/09/o-wodzie-po-ktorej-pywaja-odzie.htm https://podwodnalodz.blogspot.com/2013/09/o-wodzie-po-ktorej... [1] https://i.imgur.com/SIp8CxN.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/SIp8CxN.jpeg

It goes both ways. I received a large delivery from Poland recently, and it was addressed to "K?benhavn", with similar mistakes in the street name.

troymc 2y ago

I wonder how many of those packages end up in Vada, Italy. Or Cody, Wyoming. Or Buda, Texas...

jplrssn 2y ago
I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.
- mkotowski 2y ago
  I got curious if I can get data to answer that, and it seems so. Based on xlsx from [0], we got the following ??d? localities in Poland: 1 x Bądy, 1 x Brda, 5 x Buda, 120 x Budy, 4 x Dudy, 1 x Dydy, 1 x Gady, 1 x Judy, 1 x Kady, 1 x Kadź, 1 x Łada, 1 x Lady, 4 x Lądy, 2 x Łady, 1 x Lęda, 1 x Lody, 4 x Łódź, 1 x Nida, 1 x Reda, 1 x Redy, 1 x Redz, 74 x Ruda, 8 x Rudy, 12 x Sady, 2 x Zady, 2 x Żydy Certainly quite a lot to search for a lost package. [0]: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/188,wykaz-urzedowych-nazw-miejscowosci-i-ich-czesci https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/188,wykaz-urzedowych-nazw-mie...
  - jplrssn 2y ago
    Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?
    - schubart 2y ago
      Sounds like someone is getting ready for Advent of Code!
  - poincaredisk 2y ago
    Interestingly, Lady, Łady and Lądy will end up the same after the usual transliteration.
    - account42 2y ago
      That's (one reason) why postal codes exist. Dunno about Poland, but town names here are not unique to begin with.
    - ozornin 2y ago
      So, transliteration to "Lady", "?ady" and "L?dy" respectively seems to work even better in this case than "Lady"
  - yreg 2y ago
    Experienced postal workers most probably know well that ??d? represents a municipality with three non-ascii characters.
  - ctm92 2y ago
    Łódź seems to be the only one translating to ??d?, all others have normal ASCII characters in the places 1, 2 and 4
- ygra 2y ago
  And the postal code.

jowea 2y ago

And the packages get there? Don't you put "Łódź (Lodz)" in the city field? Or the postal code takes care of the issue?

pzduniak 2y ago
Yep, postal code does all the work.
rvba 2y ago
You live in a boat? But how do they know on what sea?
- ivanjermakov 2y ago
  Ironically, there are no big rivers in Łódź (anymore)
  - tomthe 2y ago
    anymore??
    - pzduniak 2y ago
      Sorry, I was thirsty. There were no "big" rivers, ever. More like springs. We have lots of subterranean water, so out of the 18 rivers we have in the city, 16 have their sources here [0]. They were used to power mills in the 19-20th century during the industrialization. Many of the rivers that used to go through the city center flow underground. I live close to the river Olechówka [1], which flows into a regulated reservoir that used to feed a mill - so the area is called Młynek, "Little Mill" :) [0] https://podwodnalodz.blogspot.com/2013/09/o-wodzie-po-ktorej-pywaja-odzie.htm https://podwodnalodz.blogspot.com/2013/09/o-wodzie-po-ktorej... [1] https://i.imgur.com/SIp8CxN.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/SIp8CxN.jpeg