On 09/09/2020 09:10, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>  Well one alternative is the rural Irish approach, roads are mostly
> unnamed instead small regions are named (but there are no signs to tell you
> the names). Houses are sometimes named but mostly not, the postman has
> to know who lives where because twenty or thirty houses on two or three
> streets all have the same address[1]. Couriers insist on phone numbers
> before accepting packages. This venerable system has recently grown
> postcodes ... every delivery point has a unique postcode so you need a map
> of them to find anything.

If there is a known chaotic system, workarounds such as always using
phone numbers are put in place. In England where most of the time street
numbering follows some sort of logic, there is little ability to cope
with outliers.

Ours is a new house in quite a long street, they gave us a postcode
which isn't the same as the houses around us, its from 300m further up
the road, and the houses have names and not numbers. Every delivery
bloke on the planet has driven straight past, stopped further up, and
then phoned to say they couldn't find us. Lucky the other side of the
road has sequential numbers, so we have to tell everyone we are opposite
number 44.

---druck

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