[Elecraft] Expecting a delivery ... but didn't happen

[Don Wilhelm]

We have a similar situation here - on a private road - and I do believe 
the numbers were randomly assigned.  Coming down the road, one 
sequentially encounters 1062, then 1060, then 1063, then 1064 - 1061 has 
been passed 1/4 mile before and there are intervening numbers between.

Somehow USPS, UPS and FedEx have figured it out.  Google Earth has it 
right, but most GPS units lump all those addresses in the middle of the 
road.

So we have not had a problem with the carriers, but I am not sure how 
they have figured it out.  The department that assigns addresses is 
connected with the USPS delivery addressing system, but I do not know 
the order - to me it seems quite arbitrary, but there must be some 
sensibility in what appears to be chaos.

Only once have I had a parcel delivered to the wrong house, and that was 
by DHL - the other carriers have done a great job for me.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/9/2014 7:48 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> We have to tell visitors to ignore the numbers on the mail boxes, they 
> appear psuedo-random [they're not, but it's a long story]. We've had 
> new visitors looking for "670" [us] give up and backtrack when they 
> got to "680"[1/4 mi before us], and then do it again when some of the 
> boxes on the road across from our gravel driveway [including ours] are 
> in the 700's.
>
> After some "Couldn't find address" situations with the carriers, I 
> wrote to UPS, FedEx, and our local Postmaster and explained the 
> problem and apparently it worked because we haven't had a 
> non-delivered "delivery" in years.  I also put in some barbed wire on 
> the outside fences guaranteed to "keep elephants out."  Must have 
> worked also, we have never had an elephant in the pastures ... that I 
> know of.