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US addresses exhibit neither increasing nor decreasing specificity. Apartment numbers are usually written in the middle, like "30 Tristan Way, Apt. 107, Gwynet
by jzwinck 13y ago
US addresses exhibit neither increasing nor decreasing specificity. Apartment numbers are usually written in the middle, like "30 Tristan Way, Apt. 107, Gwyneth VA 27384". This never seemed strange to me until I saw it being done more sensibly elsewhere.
Singapore is another good one: its postcode scheme changed twice in less than a century, and being a city-state, there is nothing useful to put in a "city" field (mail is often sent to "Singapore Singapore", or even "Singapore Singapore Singapore").
- masklinn 13y ago> Singapore [...] being a city-state, there is nothing useful to put in a "city" field Good point, which should apply to most city-states (e.g. Monaco, or the Vatican)
- jeremysmyth 13y ago...not to mention the substantial number of rural addresses that don't include city names in most countries.
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- sageikosa 13y ago>US addresses exhibit neither increasing nor decreasing specificity. Apartment numbers are usually written in the middle, like "30 Tristan Way, Apt. 107, Gwyneth VA 27384". This never seemed strange to me until I saw it being done more sensibly elsewhere. Best to think of it as an onion. On the outer layers (beginning and end) automated and semi-automated sorting can be applied most easily (the ZIP code was designed for automated sorting and routing). Apartment and suite numbers in the middle are handled (usually) manually by carriers already at or near the service address.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoThis really bothered me when I had mail shipped to me in Shanghai from amazon (US). Amazon forces you to provide a state. Shanghai is its own administrative unit, at a level with Chinese provinces. So my address ended up being "<street>, Shanghai, Shanghai China". I've seen natives handle that problem by filling in their district in the "city" field, so e.g. in my case "<street>, Minhang district, Shanghai China", analogous to e.g. "<street>, Nob Hill, San Francisco, USA".
- stephen_g 13y agoThat's a very verbose way of writing an apartment... In Australia, we'd write the first part of that address as 107/30 Tristan Way.
- rogerbinns 13y agoAnd in Sri Lanka it would be written the other way around - 30/107 Tristan Way.
- eru 13y agoOr for Singapore, I've seen people put in "China" for the country field. But that was just someone from the US trying to ship to us..