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0 pointssigio3y ago0 comments

I remember from one of my first jobs, we received a vacation postcard addressed to:

- Dear friends - Lange voorhuid - Holland

.... Lange voorhuid was a mis-spelling of the streetname: "Lange Voorhout", which is someone unique to The Hague... but didn't have a housenumber (and it's a long street). Still, the postcard arrived at our company before the sender got back from vacation.

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Doxin3y ago

The dutch postal service is honestly kinda impressive with this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure they keep a name-address database or some such, because mis-addressing a letter will still almost always get delivered correctly based on the name.

IIRC it's fairly recently they stopped delivering to non-postal addresses. i.e. until recently you could address something to "The green house next to the church" and it'd get there.

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0 pointssigio3y ago0 comments

I remember from one of my first jobs, we received a vacation postcard addressed to:

- Dear friends - Lange voorhuid - Holland

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Doxin3y ago

IIRC it's fairly recently they stopped delivering to non-postal addresses. i.e. until recently you could address something to "The green house next to the church" and it'd get there.

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