In Ireland we have the Eircode system, where each building (even individual apartments) get their own code
What is the minimal possible UK address?
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#52In Finland, you can send a letter to Santa Claus with only this address: Joulupukki 99999 Korvatunturi Where "Joulupukki" is the Finnish name for Santa, and "Korvatunturi" is the mountain where he supposedly lives. Postal code 99999 was reserved for this purpose.
>and "Korvatunturi" is the mountain where he supposedly lives...
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#54I remember working with SagePay as a payment provider back in 2008 (before we knew of Stripe!) and finding it interesting that card address validation was only done on the numbers in a full address. For example, from "20 Windsor Road, London, SE1 6JH" it would extract 2016 and validate that against the banks details. I thought that was quite a smart way as UK addresses can come in all forms, shapes and sizes (as the…
How would it work where the house has a name instead of a number e.g. Wisteria cottage, Bristol, BS1 1AA?
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#55Interesting, I tried something similar here in the US by using an address like this: 1 my street 01234-5678 But the letter was returned to me as "Address Unknown". It needed the City and State to be delivered. Nice to see in the UK the postal codes are more useful then here in the US.
Think of it as a checksum, not an IP address.
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#56Clearing out some old stuff from my grandparents, grandpa had at some point received a letter, from Stockholm, to their summer house in the woods addressed Thorvald The forest by
My parents, living in rural Norway, received a postcard simply addressed to their first names, Norway.
It turned out they were the only couple with that exact combination of first names, and someone at the Norwegian Post were bored enough to ask the Folkeregisteret (the database in which all Norwegians are listed) whether there were any Jorunns living with any Ingolfs anywhere in the country.
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#57It looks like it went through the automated letter sorter, too (see the orange barcode that's been added to the envelope). Not surprising as the address is even more unambiguous to a machine than a human. Occasionally there are viral stories here of letters being addressed to places like "The blue house, Termonfeckin, Ireland", which looks like it conveys less information even if it's physically longer. These get man…
> It looks like it went through the automated letter sorter, too
I understand the mail sorting depots can x-ray scan and read the contents of letters up to 4 pages of a4 folded, but that could have been hackers feeding me fake info in order to stop me writing letters.
An example of the technique https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/02/researchers-re...
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#58Technically, an occupant of flat 1 could have rationally concluded that it was addressed to them as much as it was to anyone else in the building.
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#59Clearing out some old stuff from my grandparents, grandpa had at some point received a letter, from Stockholm, to their summer house in the woods addressed Thorvald The forest by
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#60Royal Mail used to be (perhaps still are!) spectacularly good at delivering improperly addressed mail. I once got mail addressed to "house on the corner opposite the pub, ".