Good as gold

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The postal service is one of those things that's amazing the fact that half the things arrive at their intended destination knowing what is involved in the logistics of the whole thing.

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Yeah, I'm old too. Setting letters in the mailbox with some change on top for postage wasn't uncommon.

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As long as the address is specific enough to get through the right distribution center and to the right ending post office... chances are the carriers it ends up with will absolutely figure out where it needs to go.

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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.

Twitches

I could have sworn this was a thing.

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Iceland, draw a map on it and the right name and that's all you really need.

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When I was a kid and would send very stuffed letters, we just left a dollar paper clipped to it, they would leave the change the next day for heavier stuff.

When I was even younger I used to leave flowers in the mailbox for the mail person, and they got me a little flower statue for Xmas. That’s a memory I haven’t thought of in a long time so that was pleasant thanks for the memories!

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I remember it as a kid, but they don't allow it anymore. It fucks with high-speed sorters

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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.

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USPS is amazing
Where is their thin colored line? Real "boys in blue"

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Yep, when we visited most of the houses had little names they would use for their address. Villa Bonita 200m S of xxx

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I could strongly be wrong but I think that one is something you can sort of pull off IIRC.

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CaptainBlagbird

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.

Twitches

That makes sense.

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Well 50 cents hasn’t been enough for a domestic stamp since January 2019, so probably not. It’s currently 73 cents.

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Those are forever quarters though aren’t they

burgersc12

Just tape another quarter to it, or like two dimes and 3 pennies but that seems a bit crazy.

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Mail Fraud? You're in a lot of trouble, buddy.

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At that point, why not write latitude and longitude and be done with it?