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Now I want to try writing letters and see if they still get delivered if I write down the predecessor country.
by Scoundreller 7mo ago
Now I want to try writing letters and see if they still get delivered if I write down the predecessor country.
- sznio 7mo agoConsidering how my parents still refer to that area of the world as Yugoslavia, I'm pretty sure the postal system will know how to route it. Will probably be escalated to a human for labeling though.
- otabdeveloper4 7mo agoThere's hundreds of thousands of websites with the .su domain. (The USSR dissolved before the world-wide-web was even a thing.) If Barclays can get their own vanity TLD then Yugoslavia should be able too.
- martheen 7mo agoGranted, ccTLDs has been already going on for years before USSR change their pronoun to were. Mostly for email, no idea if ccTLDs found their use on BBS. I can understand .su continuing because Russia pretty much took over everything that represent Soviet Union elsewhere (embassies, Security Council seat, etc) and other former Soviet states either support the continuation or indifferent. Yugoslavia continuation is more contentious topic.
- vasac 7mo agoRussia pretty much took over all the USSR's external debts too.
- emmelaich 7mo agoMaybe introduce .bk (Balkans) then anyone around there can use it.
- sensanaty 7mo agoI'm sure there will be no way for us to kill eachother over something like this, no sirree...
- throw-the-towel 7mo ago.bk is not allowed because two-letter TLDs are reserved for entities with an ISO 3166 country code. .balkan might appear one day.
- input_sh 7mo agoSome of the modern-day countries retained their five-digit postcodes from Yugoslav times (Serbia and Bosnia for sure, maybe a few more, I'm too lazy to check), some only got rid of the first digit which used to identify individual Yugoslav republics (AKA modern-day countries). So I'd say it's highly likely they'd be delivered, as it's still mostly the same, though I should point out many cities changed names since. For like the most basic example, Montenegro's capital was called Titograd between WW2 and 1992, before it swapped back to being called Podgorica.
- Gare 7mo agoIn Croatia only Zagreb got changed to 10 000 (because capital), the rest stayed the same.
- sensanaty 7mo agoI've encountered a surprising number of forms where "Serbia" isn't an option, but Yugoslavia is, even in 2026. There's been a number of times here in the Netherlands where I had to pick Yugoslavia as my place of birth on official government forms because we were technically still Yugoslavia in '98 and not Serbia and Montenegro. I have no doubts that snail mail addressed to Yugoslavia still exists and probably gets routed just fine
- hugh-avherald 7mo agoIt would be logical if your date of birth changed the available options for country of birth to the set of countries that were contemporaneously recognized.
- sensanaty 7mo agoSure, but my Serbian passport actually says "Place of birth: Republika Srbije" (Republic of Serbia) :p
- winstonwinston 7mo agoIt will work, they'll figure it out based on postcode and city name. I get items delivered to me, to this day, because at the time of account registration the address form had only Yugoslavia.