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Re:75½ Bedford Street by tgflynn on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:49AM (#22423366)
I wonder how many of those there are in the US.

I used to work on postal address recognition software and I don't recall that we had any capability for recognizing strings of digits that contained fractions.

It was a long time ago now, but it seems like something I would have remembered.

Re:75½ Bedford Street by l_t on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:18AM (#22423654)
I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems.

I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2".

Worked surprisingly well. One of the advantages of having deliveries still carried out by actual people where the address apparently doesn't have to be an exact match.

Re:75½ Bedford Street by tgflynn on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:32AM (#22423840)
Yes, I suppose as long as the street name is recognized it will usually go to the right carrier, at least for fairly short streets.
Re:75½ Bedford Street by sybarita on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:37AM (#22431925)
They're not uncommon at all. Surprised to see people in the comments here surprised to learn about them. Might be uncommon in other countries but it's pretty normal in the US.