Re: CHAT: postcodes

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> But the point stays that different apartments have different numbers if you
> count the extension. An apartment, whether it has a single number or a number
> followed by a letter, a "bis" or a colour, always has it's own individual door
> number. It's not the case in France. For instance, my parents have the address
> 172, rue Maurice Cadot, and they share the door number with the other fifteen
> apartments of the building. There are no extensions to differentiate different
> apartments.
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?
They must be forever getting one another's mail.  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.

Irish rural addresses take this form:

        Name
        Village
        Postal Town
        Co. <county name>
        Ireland

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they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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