One time my uncle sent me a letter and couldn’t remember the address of my place at the time, so he addressed it to, “White house a block away from the corner of [street] in [town, state]” and it made it here.
This was, obviously, well before you could just use Street View or whatever.
In Bangkok, “street names” are entire city quarters and houses are numbered chronologically by when they were built.
So it isn’t unusual to have 237 be right next to 1550.
238 could be 2 miles away.That sounds even more chaotic than the Japanese system.
I attempted to find the article but search engines are terrible. They mentioned that advertising companies often have a book of mail tests; things they attempted to mail to see if they would be permitted. Some of the examples included:
A sock with an address written on it, partial addresses, wet paper, vague addresses like your example, local names like “sues bar”, tom cruises house, a sandwich in a bag, poster board, flags. They get pretty creative and like a record of what might work for pitch meetings. Generally if it looks plausible, they attempt it.
“You know, the house next to the one that has that little cunt kid. You know the one. Always leaving his bike on the lawn, and being a real disrespectful little shit if you try to explain it’s gonna get stolen in THIS neighborhood. The house next to that. The white one, not the blue one on the other side.”
Mailman: “Oh. Yeah. I DO know that little fucker. Damn near tripped over his bike when it was covered in snow, and I didn’t know it was there.”
I mean… if it was enough to cover a stamp and I was the post office worker, I’d be a bro about it.
If it works it ain’t stupid
So… This is stupid?
As a kid, I tried to mail a letter without a stamp by having the return address be the address I wanted to send it and my address as the destination address. They put the letter back in my own mail box, so technically I mailed a letter for free. 😌
Where I live, the mail would also be delivered, but the return address would get a request for payment letter by the postal service. At least that’s what happened when my letter was 1g too heavy for the paid format.
Postal Secret Service has entered chat
Put the return address as the address you want to send it to, no stamp needed
Wha…oh my god. How have I never realized this???
Now if you’l excuse me, I have to make a collect call to my parents. My name is Bob Adababyitzaboi.
May work a couple times in town, in the same ZIP Code; may come with free trip to federal penitentiary
