 Editor in Chief Bill   | 30 Mar 2013 8:58 a.m. PST |
They managed to bring me a recent issue of a hobby magazine, even though the address was given as: (my street address)
Waterford, USA There must be dozens of Waterfords in the USA, I wonder how they found me! |
| whitphoto | 30 Mar 2013 9:08 a.m. PST |
Was the zip code on it? That's the first thing they look at for routing purposes. Frankly you could put a street address and the zip code, skip everything else and it wouldn't even slow down. |
| Inner Sanctum | 30 Mar 2013 9:08 a.m. PST |
yet they managed to hold a second hand book back for 2 months before sending it on to uk – via Sweden. |
| Korvessa | 30 Mar 2013 9:24 a.m. PST |
When I was living in Finland a gazillion years ago, one of my buddies put his return address as "Lahti Poland" as kind of a joke to a friend. The friend wrote back by copying the address – it got to him. Somebody at the Poland post office wrote "try Finland" on it and it got there. |
| Bob in Edmonton | 30 Mar 2013 9:35 a.m. PST |
I've had stuff addressed to Edmonton Alabama get to the correct Edmonton Alberta. And I've had stuff returned as undeliverable because I wrote the arabic numeral seven with the little cross underneath it. I'm guessing it comes down to who processes it and the effort they put in. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 30 Mar 2013 10:00 a.m. PST |
Was the zip code on it? No |
| Rrobbyrobot | 30 Mar 2013 10:24 a.m. PST |
Wow! I thought they were more psychotic than psychic. |
| zoneofcontrol | 30 Mar 2013 10:51 a.m. PST |
Printers and publishers that mail out their own or contracted materials, must pre-sort to a certain degree before turning over the items to the Postal Service to process and deliver. You magazine may well have been in with other "local/regional" people's copies which would have gotten it at least close to you. The final machinery reading your town name and street address may have had just enough correct info to get it to the end destination. You may want to contact the publisher to have them correct your address for future mailings. Especially the ever popular "This is your last issue… Renew NOW!" – LOL |
| Only Warlock | 30 Mar 2013 11:18 a.m. PST |
If it is a Barcoded label the full address is there. |
| Korvessa | 30 Mar 2013 11:45 a.m. PST |
Wow! I thought they were more psychotic than psychic.
My in-laws who work for USPS certainly are (psychotic that is)
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| Editor in Chief Bill | 30 Mar 2013 12:50 p.m. PST |
Printers and publishers that mail out their own or contracted materials, must pre-sort to a certain degree before turning over the items to the Postal Service to process and deliver. It was one of the smaller wargaming publications from the U.K. No barcoded labels in sight.  |
| Militia Pete | 30 Mar 2013 5:36 p.m. PST |
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14Bore  | 31 Mar 2013 2:13 p.m. PST |
Probably a TMP member, is my guess. |
