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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?
Definitely not unique to Japan, but several towers here have their own zip code, and there is at least one building I know where the building has several zip codes (each for various floors of the building). People take this and extrapolate to think that we should just be writing very long zip codes for everything, but the wonderful nature of writing out addresses is that they have a lot of possible error correcting.…
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I presume that ‘hashes’ to 11.
Correct. Which means if you’re taking deliveries it’s probably better to have a house number as you get validated more frequently.
In the US, someone I know who had a Post Office box liked writing simply `box-number zip-code` as their address. It worked. Eg, if you wrote on an envelope: 1034 21240 It would get there! You might want to add a "Box" before the "1034" to be safe -- and to disambiguate between a house number, as in OP? (I'm not sure just a house number would ever work in the USA?) But it looks cooler with just two numbers. Especially…
Once lived in a Canadian house that had its own postal code. Was always careful with any system that showed you the closest stores or whatever by postal code. I think I only tried to send one envelope with just the postal code and it didn’t make it!
Students used to send her postcards from their journeys.
It became so popular that it was enough to write "Olga, Sweden" for her to get the letters [0] (source in swedish).
The letter arrived a day or two later, and I brought it to school, to his surprise.
The trick? There are only 2 addresses with that postcode, and they're right next to each other.
In Ireland you can just describe the person instead of the actual address and it'll get delivered https://twitter.com/weefeargal/status/1479069076144234497?s=...
While this was in Ireland, it's worth specifying that Royal Mail was responsible for this wholesome delivery as it was in Northern Ireland (currently in the UK), so it's not immediately obvious that this applies to the Republic as well.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/rugby-union/times-bizarre-i...