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If they're assigning each domicile its own effective GUID as a post code, this should certainly make delivery unambiguous, but the headache of filling in online

by HeXetic 12y ago

If they're assigning each domicile its own effective GUID as a post code, this should certainly make delivery unambiguous, but the headache of filling in online order forms would remain, as rural houses would still have no street names nor addresses.

frandroid 12y ago
At that point, whatever you put in the form that ends up on the envelope is pretty much going to be irrelevant, since people will just look at the person's name and postcode.
zaroth 12y ago
Please enter your shipping information: A65 F4E2 Not very charming or easy to remember, but that sounds pretty convenient as far as filling out the form goes. Kind of like sending mail to your license plate.
- wanderingstan 12y ago
  A minor point, but I've hated how postal addresses are always broken up into many fields. It'd be wonderful to be able to copy-n-paste a postal address as easy as an email or, as you said, license plate. (I'm surprised that Google or Apple hasn't come up with an auto-parser for pasting in a contact's postal address and have it automatically segmented into street, city, zip.)
  - epochwolf 12y ago
    That's because you can mail a letter with just a name and a zipcode if your name is unique enough. The city, state, and a description of the location also works. There is some standardization of addresses but even those formats can be troublesome.
  - zaroth 12y ago
    I wanted to show a single field for address, because it just seems so much more user friendly... but then I realized I also needed to filter users by state, and I thought better of trying to figure out how to parse the block of text.
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bitJericho 12y ago
Sounds like a failing of the order form, not the post office.
hayksaakian 12y ago
I presume the purpose of the GUID is to map to a property once you have a system in place, something like google maps can connect the dots (literally).

by HeXetic 12y ago

frandroid 12y ago

At that point, whatever you put in the form that ends up on the envelope is pretty much going to be irrelevant, since people will just look at the person's name and postcode.

zaroth 12y ago

Please enter your shipping information: A65 F4E2 Not very charming or easy to remember, but that sounds pretty convenient as far as filling out the form goes. Kind of like sending mail to your license plate.

wanderingstan 12y ago
A minor point, but I've hated how postal addresses are always broken up into many fields. It'd be wonderful to be able to copy-n-paste a postal address as easy as an email or, as you said, license plate. (I'm surprised that Google or Apple hasn't come up with an auto-parser for pasting in a contact's postal address and have it automatically segmented into street, city, zip.)
- epochwolf 12y ago
  That's because you can mail a letter with just a name and a zipcode if your name is unique enough. The city, state, and a description of the location also works. There is some standardization of addresses but even those formats can be troublesome.
- zaroth 12y ago
  I wanted to show a single field for address, because it just seems so much more user friendly... but then I realized I also needed to filter users by state, and I thought better of trying to figure out how to parse the block of text.

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bitJericho 12y ago

Sounds like a failing of the order form, not the post office.

hayksaakian 12y ago

I presume the purpose of the GUID is to map to a property once you have a system in place, something like google maps can connect the dots (literally).