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I somehow doubt this will pass the snifftest of one of my old addresses, which Australia Post successfully delivered to on a weekly basis: Third on right o

by shakna 1y ago

I somehow doubt this will pass the snifftest of one of my old addresses, which Australia Post successfully delivered to on a weekly basis: Third on right of main, Tiwi College, Melville Island, 0822, AU. You can try to normalize that... But "Main Road" is in another city. Because I wasn't living in a city. There were no road names. And the 3rd position was an empty plot, not the third house. We had a bunch of houses around a strip of land, a few minutes from the airstrip - the only egress.

mrweasel 1y ago
You also have to account for interestingly worded addresses. We had " Streetname 5, behind the glazier business. It might say <some other name> on the door That's very specific, but also not really an address.
- devilbunny 1y ago
  “Duzbuns Hopsit pfarmerrsc” (For today’s 10000, that’s Terry Pratchett. The autocrat of the city of Ankh-Morpork amuses himself, at times, by figuring out where unreadably-addressed mail should go - in this case, a baker (“duzbuns” == does buns) across the street (“hopsit” == opposite) from a pharmacy, which in his extremely detailed knowledge of the city means only one place.)
ryao 1y ago
I recall an episode of Fraiser where Niles moved into “The Montana” and it was so famous that he could just have people write his name followed by “The Montana” on envelopes to send mail to him. I believe that was based on the Dakota apartments in NYC. I have no idea if people at the actual Dakota apartments can do that, but I suspect the post offices in NYC would know to send mail there if it simply said a name followed by “The Dakota”.
usr1106 1y ago
Something like that has not worked in Finland for several years. All addresses are scanned and matched by the mail with a DB of "valid addresses". There is a big student dorm in this city here, which has had problems with mail delivery for years. Not that students would receive a lot of mail. Most businesses charge extra for paper bills, most authorities prefer electronic messages and private postcards don't seem to be common in that age group either. After years of undeliverable mail it was found that the building permit for the dorm was registered incorrectly by the city and as a result the rooms were never registered as residential addresses in the postal DB.

by shakna 1y ago

mrweasel 1y ago

You also have to account for interestingly worded addresses. We had " Streetname 5, behind the glazier business. It might say <some other name> on the door That's very specific, but also not really an address.

devilbunny 1y ago
“Duzbuns Hopsit pfarmerrsc” (For today’s 10000, that’s Terry Pratchett. The autocrat of the city of Ankh-Morpork amuses himself, at times, by figuring out where unreadably-addressed mail should go - in this case, a baker (“duzbuns” == does buns) across the street (“hopsit” == opposite) from a pharmacy, which in his extremely detailed knowledge of the city means only one place.)

ryao 1y ago

I recall an episode of Fraiser where Niles moved into “The Montana” and it was so famous that he could just have people write his name followed by “The Montana” on envelopes to send mail to him. I believe that was based on the Dakota apartments in NYC. I have no idea if people at the actual Dakota apartments can do that, but I suspect the post offices in NYC would know to send mail there if it simply said a name followed by “The Dakota”.

usr1106 1y ago

Something like that has not worked in Finland for several years. All addresses are scanned and matched by the mail with a DB of "valid addresses". There is a big student dorm in this city here, which has had problems with mail delivery for years. Not that students would receive a lot of mail. Most businesses charge extra for paper bills, most authorities prefer electronic messages and private postcards don't seem to be common in that age group either. After years of undeliverable mail it was found that the building permit for the dorm was registered incorrectly by the city and as a result the rooms were never registered as residential addresses in the postal DB.