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[stumog]

Have you ever got post for somebody else?

sometimes its a street away or the number is aliitle different but this is the worst i have seen.

got home yesterday to a letter that wasnt me or my wife ok happens alot, then looked at the address yes house number correct, road nearlly right, town wrong, country wrong, continent wrong,

thought i would post and give you guys a laugh

 

[yogi]

Now that's impressive!!

Funny thing is, here in Ireland there are no postcodes anywhere and no road names in the countryside either.
A typical address here could be

John Smith
Ballymahon
Co Longford.

Or if the postie is lucky there will be a smaller townland so he might get

John Smith
Sciona
Ballmahon
Co Longford.

Ballymahon would have a population of about 3000 and could have 50 or more townlands over an area of 10 to 100 square miles.

When a new postman starts, he goes round with the old one for a few days to learn where everyone and everything is (addresses and maps and reality are often different, some people have 2 addresses because parish maps and official maps often don't overlap) and who to ask if they can't find someone.

When someone new moves in, the postman has to ask people he meets until he finds the house they have moved into!!

The funny thing is....... it works.

I send a lot of letters in the post for work, probably a 1000 a year, 99% get there the next day, I could count on one hand whats got lost over 10+ years and they open it and send it back to you if they really can't find the recipient (the postmaster/mistress in the local post office does this).

It might be a bit laughably old fashioned, but its a great system.

 

[cavanmick]

Yogi is bang on, my house is the last in our townland so my postman comes from ballyjamesduff, accross tge road is virginia and next door is bailiborough, 3 posrmen within 100 yards. I work in longford and some of the address names around ballymahon etc would be more at home in a sci fi film.....lol

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[stumog]

I reckon we get at least 1or 2 letters a week that are not for us and we are in a city.

 

[Doodle]

I'm reminded of Dara O'Briain's comments about sending letters home.

Writing the address in your normal handwriting and then 'Ireland' in massive capital letters at the bottom of the envelope. Then walking into a British post office and going "Hey hey, you there, you. You see this bit here, this is all you need to worry about. That's not for you. Just get it to Ireland, they'll know what to do with it"

 

[Paddler Ed]

I spend my time trying to convince the Aussies that UK postcodes are better... the fact they pinpoint down to about 15-20 houses as opposed to a whole town, plus surrounding bits, that they do here....

 

[wobbly]

I get emails for someone else!