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Patrick has an excellent variation on this theme:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

I live on a road that has two sets of numbers, both identical (but several hundred meters removed from each other) in two different towns but with the same name. Getting mail and packages delivered here is for want of a better word a challenge.



Is it because the post sucks at its job? I would expect this to be handled correctly for the sole reason that you could have two unconnected roads with the same name in two different cities and end up in essentially the same situation, no?


I think if they would be further away from each other it would be less of a problem.




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