My home address is of the form m Rivendell Lane, #n<\/i>. Rivendell Lane (name changed) is a condo with multiple buildings; each building contains multiple dwellings, each with an outside door. When tradesmen come calling, most of the time their dispatcher omits the unit number n<\/i>, and they go knock at the door of unit m<\/i>, which happens also to be in building m<\/i>. They then call their dispatcher, who calls me; I roll my eyes and explain. Without mobile telephones I’d never get anything delivered!<\/p>\n
I can’t think of any functionality that would be lost if the buildings as such had never been given numbers. My address would then be slightly shorter and free of ambiguity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My home address is of the form m Rivendell Lane, #n. Rivendell Lane (name changed) is a condo with multiple buildings; each building contains multiple dwellings, each with an outside door. When tradesmen come calling, most of the time their … Continue reading