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* https://twitter.com/weefeargal/status/1479069076144234497?s=...
* https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342102/amp/How-Roy...
* https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish-postman-miraculously-de... (and the three other stories linked within!!)
* https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67207/letter-no-address-...
* https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/postman-manages-del... (possibly my favourite)
Good old posties
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Incidentally the Republic of Ireland didn't have a nationwide postcode system until 2015. Prior to that I used to address letters to a relative there as Name, Village, County and they were delivered! Turned out there were two people of the same name in the village but the postie saw the UK-originating stamp on the letter and ,delivered to the applicable one.
Intriguingly, the Irish Eircode system is seemingly not used for postal deliveries by An Post (the mail service). See various contributions to the discussion here: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058233089/is-it-true-that-... Around the same time as the Eircode was introduced, water meters were installed for every property in Ireland. They have never been used, because of public outcry over the idea of being charge…
e.g.
Name
Eircode
Someone
Foo House
Town
Co Meath
Ireland
Reminds me that https://what3words.com/ exists, it's too bad a system like this couldn't be implemented globally. I'd love to write ///rich.soup.noble on an envelope and have it delivered
well at least there is some recent activity https://nitter.net/what3words
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I was excited to learn PO box numbers are unique in my city and have their own ZIP code so theoretically mail could reach me with an address of only "37939-0002" (ZIP only) or "PO Box 2, Knoxville" (no ZIP) if someone wants to test it out. I'll send something fun in reply.
No state either? Would they know which state to route that to? I think yours is the largest but apparently there are a bunch of cities in the US with that name.
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I was excited to learn PO box numbers are unique in my city and have their own ZIP code so theoretically mail could reach me with an address of only "37939-0002" (ZIP only) or "PO Box 2, Knoxville" (no ZIP) if someone wants to test it out. I'll send something fun in reply.
No state either? Would they know which state to route that to? I think yours is the largest but apparently there are a bunch of cities in the US with that name.
Some brilliant examples of postal detective work in Ireland documented here https://www.quora.com/Can-you-send-mail-in-Ireland-with-the-... . eg Petra Kindler and Donal Moore Unfortunately I forgot the street name but it's near a street named *Cul de Sac* The beautiful city of Waterford, well known for its kindly postmen IRELAND
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I wonder if a sufficiently famous, public, and unique name could get delivered. Would a letter simply addressed “Biden” make it to the White House?
I'll bet "Rishi Sunak" would get to 10 Downing Street. Although that's also an address with it's own postcode, so "SW1A 2AA" would also get there.
I wonder if random mail sent to top level politicians actually gets to them. The intention is clear, yes, but there's probably layers of security that will prevent it from getting to its intended address...
You can put just ‘HMRC’ (UK tax department) on a letter (with paid postage) and it will get to them.
...and, if you write to a member of parliament at the Houses of Parliament, you don't have to use a stamp. So presumably... HP ...with no stamp on the envelope could theoretically work. Now, which MP has the shortest name?
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GB is the correct ISO country code for Great Britain.
That always trips a lot of people up because .uk is the country-code top-level domain for Great Britain, and cctlds are assigned using the 2-letter ISO country code for that country. ...except for Great Britain, who were one of the first few other countries to be connected to the internet, and decided to use .uk before people realised that every country would need one, and using already-assigned ISO codes would be th…
Some brilliant examples of postal detective work in Ireland documented here https://www.quora.com/Can-you-send-mail-in-Ireland-with-the-... . eg Petra Kindler and Donal Moore Unfortunately I forgot the street name but it's near a street named *Cul de Sac* The beautiful city of Waterford, well known for its kindly postmen IRELAND