Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names
by lisper on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:55AM
(#19075904)
See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075900
Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names
by jshowa3 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:16AM
(#19076048)
I don't think it would be advisable to deliver mail from point A to B directly, physically. It would be too inefficient since mail has to be sorted and is often sent to intermediate facilities to do this.
Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names
by codetrotter on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:37AM
(#19076233)
Forwarding is worse not because it prevents A -> B directly but because it forces all mail to additionally pass through the location of the forwarding address.
Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names
by jshowa3 on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:51AM
(#19076324)
Well, forwarding really isn't any different because standard, non-forwarded mail often goes to addresses where the recipient isn't present either. Forwarding just requires it. So its an extra stop (which is worse), but the concept is the same regardless of whether mail is forwarded or not.
Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names
by lisper on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:40AM
(#19076657)
If I move from California to New York I don't want mail sent to me from New York to have to go to California and back.
This part is done by mailbox companies like EarthClassMail.com. I've used them for years, and it's wonderfully convenient to have the same postal address despite moving all over the country. Plus, if you want, they'll open specific envelopes, deposit checks for you, scan stuff, etc. I love that because as a traveling consultant, I don't wanna wait until I get home to have checks go into my bank account.
Drawbacks: there's a latency and an expense involved with forwarding packages. I tend to not use it for packages, just for regular postal mail. Anytime someone asks for an address, they get my EarthClassMail one, because I probably don't want whatever they're mailing me anyway.