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Where I currently live, my street has no name, my house has no number. If a package is delivered by mail, my phone number needs to be put on the package, and th

• duped 2y ago
  How do you specify your location? GPS coordinates?
  • sam_lowry_ 2y ago
    Telegram location sharing, he said.
    • stingraycharles 2y ago
      They check my phone number on telegram. If it exists, they usually reach out on telegram, and ask whether I want to pick it up or prefer delivery. If I want delivery, I share my location over telegram and a bit later someone comes on his motorbike to deliver the package.
  • bfdm 2y ago
    I imagine with something like: Person name, Local-area name, Region Name, Country name, Phone number This gets it to the nearest handler to the local area, who then needs to know where the person lives or call them.
    • stingraycharles 2y ago
      This is correct. <my name>, <my phone>, Siem Reap, Cambodia works. It’s just not accepted. So I’ll just fill in random numbers at zip code and street names and the delivery companies over here generally know how to deal with it.
• rblatz 2y ago
  Why don’t you name your road and assign a house number? Either just make it up, or to make it more official contact your local government and propose a name and numbering scheme for it.
• bobsmooth 2y ago
  Have you tried adding delivery instructions? But I guess you couldn't complete an Amazon order without an address.
  • jbl0ndie 2y ago
    I remember a time before Ireland set up postcodes (zip codes) for the whole country. If postcode was mandatory field in an e-commerce address form, you couldn't mail stuff from the UK unless it was in Dublin. Dublin had postcodes. I managed to find one site that would accept 'null' so the form would submit.
    • gsck 2y ago
      Ireland's postcode system now is a thing called Eircode, which each eircode maps to your address exactly
    • wheybags 2y ago
      I used to just do "n/a", "na", "none", or "0000", whatever would make it accept.
      • tough 2y ago
        In US sites i usually input 90210 because Beverly Hills lol
• dataflow 2y ago
  > It’s almost entirely impossible to order through Amazon et al The "almost" is interesting - how do you do it in reality?
  • stingraycharles 2y ago
    I provide an address that looks technically correct, ensure it’s delivered with DHL, and then override DHL to pick up at one of their locations. Also, there are special delivery companies like CamboQuick that take the whole process out of your hands and use (slow) ships freight to ship stuff from Amazon et al to Cambodia. You’ll have to wait 4-6 weeks, but they handle the custom clearance and everything and deliver it to your house for a $2 fee.
• BobaFloutist 2y ago
  What's preventing some local authority from just naming your street? And what's preventing you and your neighbors from having a meeting, agreeing on a numbering convention, and putting street numbers on your house? I guess it would be a bit silly/meaningless if you don't have your street name.
  • stingraycharles 2y ago
    Because most of my neighbors are expats and only renting and don’t actually own the property they live in. Local authority doesn’t care, because it’s a very western problem. Locals rarely have problems with it, and use “go left the second street after the big tree near the market, and then it’s the third house on the right”. Local people generally don’t use navigation apps like Google Maps, they don’t know how to use it.
• m463 2y ago
  Sounds like you have something a little like Carmel, California: https://ci.carmel.ca.us/post/addresses https://ci.carmel.ca.us/post/addresses A unique characteristic of Carmel-by-the-Sea is that there are no street addresses. Properties are identified, for example, as being on the "west side of San Antonio Street, 3 houses south of 12th Avenue". In addition to this, many owners give their homes a name. The name you choose does not have to be approved or registered with the City.