Iceland: In lieu of address, post office delivers to sketched map. "Privatized delivery services will just tell you they won't deliver"
Im in the greatest and freest country with no problems at all in the world, America, and our local fedex called me and figured out where I was since i basically have an unfindable property in another unfindable property which is indistinguishable from 7 other neighboring properties. My guess is they did something like this map because now they arrive without issue. Was a pleasant surprise since i thought they would not care and not deliver
Btw you can add your driveway/ access road, building and address on www.openstreetmap.org
Damn, dude. Our USPS carrier can't even bother to put things in our mailbox or pick up the outgoing mail that's been sitting there for half a week.
Dude that's so friggen coollllll
Reminds me of one I saw years ago from Ireland with a similar address "you know the lad with the glasses, goes to the university and his da' runs the bakery" or something to that effect. And having lived there, I have no difficulty this would find it's recipient, haha!
OMG my mom, when I was in school in England, only sent one letter while I was there - addressed it to my name and "the college in Yorkshire". No street no number and there is more than one college in Yorkshire; but they delivered it to me.
That would never fly in the US.
Should the postal service be delivering to a sketched map? It seems like a poor use of resources, although maybe things are different in Iceland.
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses. Not every property even has a valid address, at least not in the form that you'd expect.
Provided it gets routed to the right town in Iceland, I don't think this will take any more resources than any other letter. The postie will know the house anyway.
At least there are street names. Plenty of streets are unnamed.
Oh yeah I've read such a similar link before, it was great!
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names:
Unless Iceland has a magic sorting system, trying to decipher this would significantly slow a carrier down in US.
I'm not saying that a piece of mail should only be delivering if an automated system can figure out where it goes. Clearly human interaction is sometimes necessary. However, there should be some limit to how much human interaction a piece of mail can require and still be delivered.
My guess is that since Iceland is a small, sparsely populated place, a mailman there can follow such a map without particular effort, especially if the location is part of his regular route. I just think "delivering to a map" should probably be in the "quaint thing they do in Iceland" category rather than the "expected from any good postal service" one.
Take a look at the area in question on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FfMqsFNs7WU7Vejg7
The address in question is on about a 15km (~9mi) stretch of road, and realistically the odds of choosing the correct house randomly are about one in five.
So I'm going to go with "things are different in Iceland", definitely.
realistically the odds of choosing the correct house randomly are about one in five.
And knowing people there, it'd still get there just fine, because the other 4 people know exactly who this is for.
It is very obvious what house they were referring to: https://www.icelandicroots.com/post/h%C3%B3lar-petting-zoo-a-fun-stop-in-dalas%C3%BDsla-for-young-and-old
Odds are the postman glanced at the map and knew exactly where this was meant to go.
Iceland is a country of about 300k people, with one third of that in a single city, and it's smaller in size than most states in the US. The resources required to figure something like this out are pretty minimal. As long as you're not trying to map an address in Reykjavik, you're probably fine.
The postal service is a service it does not "lose money" as its purpose is not to make money but to do something for people.
gasp It's... s-s-socialism? 😯
shoots mailbox
Not in my god damned house!
If it's not helping a rich person get richer we don't want it!
How dare you post comments in a community... That's like... community-ism!
But yourr righ. I don't think this guy watched his commercials and clicked enough banner ads to get here. Probably has one of those blue state credit scores too. I bet he can even afford to buy things outside of the Walmart poverty cycle. He might even be one of those people who calls out my idiotic gender assumptions! Probably uses that lipstix OS too. /satire
technically the truth, Mailboxes are usually by the road.