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  • No, just the different names for different sides of the street. I was hoping that someone was misremembering.


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    @PJH said:

    Because it's idiotic. You have a single-carriage road, split into two single lanes - one in each direction. Along each side of the road you have houses. With different street-names.

    Hey - now that is something I've not seen before.

    As far as I could tell, most of the comments above are people complaining that "HWY 84" = "Main Street" = "Whateverstupidmemorialnamed Drive" when viewed on a map or looking at different street signs in different cities, but not that the actual postal address for different houses literally across the street from each other are different due to the direction you're traveling.

    Also annoying is when the builders/postal people put a house's mailbox on a different street from their driveway in a grid road system? Then you drive to their "address" and can't pull in to their driveway because you're on the wrong crossroad.


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    @abarker said:

    No, just the different names for different sides of the street. I was hoping that someone was misremembering.

    Also, where we are, there are plenty of places where all the postboxes are on the same side of the road regardless of where the house is, because it's too much extra driving in the boonies to go both directions on 1 road if it's a loop, instead of just going down it once.

    So in that 2 names on the opposite sides of 1 street scenario, all the postal addresses would have 1 street name, but the physical house would be located on the other street? We use even/odd box #s to denote which side of the road though, so it would still be plausible and possible to locate a house using the postal address.


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    @abarker said:

    I was hoping that someone was misremembering.

    Nope. I tried to be quite clear about this one, since a friend had to deliver to a house on Coniston Gardens, and it wasn't in the satnav (or, as I've pointed out, in Google Maps.)

    It wasn't until he happened across a postman that the idiocy became clear and he was told to go downhill on Long Bank, and the address he wanted was one of the houses on the right....



  • @darkmatter said:

    Also, where we are, there are plenty of places where all the postboxes are on the same side of the road regardless of where the house is, because it's too much extra driving in the boonies to go both directions on 1 road if it's a loop, instead of just going down it once.

    That's nothing. All of the mail boxes in my neighborhood are centrally located, so the postal carrier just has to make one stop to deliver mail for about 60 houses.


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    @abarker said:

    All of the mail boxes in my neighborhood are centrally located

    That's how the last subdivision of condos I lived in was done, and probably most subdivisions of condos are done that way.

    What I hate is trying to find: 1413 South Willow Street, Box Building W Apt 350

    Because now you know you've got to navigate at least 20 buildings worth of apartments and just pray the Apartment numbering is TOTAL and not per building...............



  • @darkmatter said:

    That's how the last subdivision of condos I lived in was done, and probably most subdivisions of condos are done that way.

    Condos and apartments do it all the time. But this is for houses. Houses! Damn lazy postal carriers.



  • @abarker said:

    But this is for houses. Houses! Damn lazy postal carriers.

    I'd never seen that until I moved to WA. But around here it's only about a dozen houses for each mailbox. At least mine is right in front of my house; "neener" to the folks who have to cross the busy street. :)



  • @HardwareGeek said:

    I'd never seen that until I moved to WA. But around here it's only about a dozen houses for each mailbox. At least mine is right in front of my house; "neener" to the folks who have to cross the busy street. :)

    It's probably more a thing in more metro areas. I grew up in the Tri-Cities in WA, and everyone there (aside from the apartment dwellers) had their own, personal mailbox. Never saw centralized mailboxes for houses until I moved near Phoenix.



  • @abarker said:

    It's probably more a thing in more metro areas. I grew up in the Tri-Cities in WA, and everyone there (aside from the apartment dwellers) had their own, personal mailbox. Never saw centralized mailboxes for houses until I moved near Phoenix.

    Depends, I had a cluster in a remote part of Rhode Island.



  • @abarker said:

    It's probably more a thing in more metro areas.

    I've lived in suburbs all my life; never rural, never urban. AFAIR, I'd never seen multi-unit mailboxes like these except in apartments. Heck, when I was growing up, we didn't even have mailboxes; we had mail slots. The mailman (not "letter carrier" in those days) dropped the mail through the slot in your front door into your house.

    @chubertdev said:

    Depends, I had a cluster in a remote part of Rhode Island.

    Now that you mention it, I have seen rural-style mailboxes clustered at a cross-roads in rural areas where the house density is really low, but that's not what we're talking about here.

    This is pretty close to what is bolted to the sidewalk in front of my house. Next to it is another unit with two bigger boxes for parcels. If you get something that's too big for your individual mailbox, the carrier puts it in one of the big boxes and puts the key for that into your individual box along with whatever other mail you got. The only reason the carrier ever comes to your actual house is if there is something you have to sign for.


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    @HardwareGeek said:

    If you get something that's too big for your individual mailbox, the carrier puts it in one of the big boxes and puts the key for that into your individual box along with whatever other mail you got.

    Probably silly questions, but

    1. I presume there's nothing stopping people from copying keys?
    2. how to they ensure return of the keys?


  • @PJH said:

    Probably silly questions, but

    1. I presume there's nothing stopping people from copying keys?
    2. how to they ensure return of the keys?
    1. With the similar setup in my neighborhood, the keys are connected to a massive key ring (you'd have to cut them off). These rings identify them as property of the postal service, and legit locksmiths won't touch them.
    2. Once you retrieve your package from the larger box, you cannot remove the key from the lock. The postal carrier has to come back with a second key to unlock the first key.


  • .3. People aren't generally dicks.

    Ok, I give up. I don't know how to type the text "3." and get Discourse to actually DISPLAY the text "3." without typing ".3.". You win Atwood. You win Alex, you fucking douche. You have ruined my life. Congratulations.

    I'm gonna get a latte.


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    It also possibly helps that tampering with the mail is a relatively serious federal offense.


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    There probably is some bass-ackwards way to do it.

     3. test

     3. test

    Ah, yes,  , a natural predator of Discourse. You're managing to rekindle my hatred. Not that it ever went away, but it was dormant.

    Making me inject fucking entities to fix the fucking broken parser. Shit. CS was fun at least.



  • The espresso stand was closed and I wasn't going to walk half a mile to the next one and so I'm sitting here with my flavorless oatmeal and my fucking DRIP coffee and let me just say it's a good thing I don't own any firearms.



  • @Onyx said:

    Making me inject fucking entities to fix the fucking broken parser. Shit. CS was fun at least.

    It's frankly embarrassing.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    3<wbr>. tags work as well.

    Well - I use that word...



  • You use it to indicate that it works in addition to the other options, not that it performs especially adequately.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    ³ . how about this?

    Edit: hmm, maybe not.



  • @HardwareGeek said:

    I've lived in suburbs all my life; never rural, never urban. AFAIR, I'd never seen multi-unit mailboxes like these except in apartments. Heck, when I was growing up, we didn't even have mailboxes; we had mail slots. The mailman (not "letter carrier" in those days) dropped the mail through the slot in your front door into your house.

    @chubertdev said:

    Depends, I had a cluster in a remote part of Rhode Island.

    Now that you mention it, I have seen rural-style mailboxes clustered at a cross-roads in rural areas where the house density is really low, but that's not what we're talking about here.
    <img src="/uploads/default/5387/a44fa158eaaa5878.png" width="194" height="259">
    This is pretty close to what is bolted to the sidewalk in front of my house. Next to it is another unit with two bigger boxes for parcels. If you get something that's too big for your individual mailbox, the carrier puts it in one of the big boxes and puts the key for that into your individual box along with whatever other mail you got. The only reason the carrier ever comes to your actual house is if there is something you have to sign for.

    That's exactly what I had in two places in Rhode Island (one near Providence, the largest city in the state, on not near anything), as well as two places here in San Diego (both places fairly urban).


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    I love the key-in-box system; my new apartment has it, while the old one did not. Unfortunately most of the interesting stuff I get delivered is too big for the package box :/



  • Yeah, the ones at my current place are really small, so I've never had to use them. Usually, those boxes are just left on my patio.



  • 3. Simple.

    &#51;

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    @jaming said:

    3. Simple.

    &#51;

    Ah, yes. Exactly what Joe Schmoe, The Regular Internet User ordered. 👍



  • I think it's awesome that we get to play with entities.


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    @Arantor said:

    I think it's awesome that we get to play with entities.

    I like to play with them. You like to play with them.

    Blakey just wants shit to work instead of having to deal with it. And I agree, it's nice to play with, but it shouldn't be required.

    Joe, well, he just heard the term HTML entities and thought it was "them hackers" again, stealing all of his pr0n.


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    @Onyx said:

    Joe, well, he just heard the term HTML entities and thought it was "them hackers" again, stealing all of his pr0n.

    Does that mean I have to give Joe back his pr0n?


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    @boomzilla said:

    Does that mean I have to give Joe back his pr0n?

    Yes, you are to email it all back to him.


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    Oh. I only have his wife's email address.



  • That would work too. It might even be more helpful.



  • 3. Hmm...
    1. Does this work well enough for you?
    2. Or does it not?

  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    Of course there's a way to do it!

    ‎3. See?
    ‍3. See?
    ‌3. See?
    ​3. See?

    Reading the source is a barrier to formatting things how A Certain Individual believes you ought to.



  • You know what's really weird? If you use \ to escape it like it works in *other places*, it doesn't work for those.

    \3. See?

    Discoursistency strikes again.


  • :belt_onion:

    3. put whatever fucking thing you want

    Those profile link hax are good for EVERYTHING

    also,

    3. Get off my lawn.



    1. Actual ordered list, anyone?
    1. oh fuck
    2. what have I done
    3. what is going on
    4. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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    @ben_lubar said:

    <ol start="3"><li>Actual ordered list, anyone?</ol>
    <ol start="2147483647"><li>oh fuck<li>what have I done<li>what is going on<li>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    welcome to 2 months ago.

    --edit: don't blame me if my quote doesn't match the expansion correctly, Dicsourse filled all of that in for me when I clicked the Quote button.


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    1. It does not overlap your avatar. I am disappointed in you, young one.

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