Re: CHAT: postcodes

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

>
> Bizarre.  Is it unknown that more than one subfamily of a family, or
> unrelated
> families with the same surname, occupy apartments of the same
> building?
No, it's not unknown. But postboxes must have both first- and lastname, so
problems are rare. Confusions do occur, but then the person who got the wrong
mail just puts it back in the right postbox.

> They must be forever getting one another's mail.
Why would people who live in the same building send each other's mail? :)

Anyway, the French post system is as efficient as any other in Europe, so it
mustn't be that much of a problem.

  Giving structural
> labels
> to apartments, independent of the present occupant, is only sensible.
> It is an extension of the logic for numbering houses at all.
>
I cannot agree with you more. But apparently in France they have another logic.
And since the system there works as well and as fast as anywhere else, you
cannot really blame them for it. As usual in France, you don't fix what ain't
broken :)) .

> Irish rural addresses take this form:
>
>         Name
>         Village
>         Postal Town
>         Co. <county name>
>         Ireland
>
Reminds me that villages that are not independent but are under the
administration of a nearby town (my godmother and my grandparents live in such
a village) must have the name of the village as part of the address, followed
by the postcode and corresponding town. A French address goes like this:

Name
door number, street name
village name (when there's one)
postcode name of town

Christophe.

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