Re: CHAT: postcodes

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> > Something that was surprising for me the first time I came to the Netherlands
> > was the fact that each house or apartment door has its own number, whereas in
> > France apartment buildings have a single door number (so you have to specify
> > the name of the person you send a letter to).
>
> It depends very much where you live. The kind of thing you describe occur
> mainly in newly built neighbourhoods, but even there it is not uncommon that
> the building has one number, and an extension is used to differentiate between
> the apartments.
In the U.S. the convention is that each building has a single number,
and apartments are always labeled by numbers or letters or both;
if numbers, they commonly correspond to the floor numbers, such as
212 or 2A for the second floor.

Street-unique numbers for separate apartments are unheard-of, except that
a building split in two left-right may have numbers like 222 and 222 1/2.

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