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Re:Why doesn't Costa Rica use real addresses? by cossatot on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:09PM (#35000296)
20 years ago I used to occasionally ship tens of thousands of dollars of geophysical surveying equipment from Arkansas to the office of INETER (Nicaraguan governmental earth sciences division). The address was something like "INETER, frente del policlinica oriental, Managua, Nicaragua" (across from the Oriental polyclinic). And DHL would come through!
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Re:Why doesn't Costa Rica use real addresses? by sakopov on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:58PM (#35001093)
Heh, last year I was renewing my car registration online and used an option in the system to send the license plate tags to a new address I recently moved to. I ended up fat-fingering the zip code and was really worried that they wouldn't arrive, but to my surprise new registration came to my new address a couple of days later. I can now see how such a small typo is a non-issue to a carrier that's dealing with routing issues like you're describing!
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Re:Why doesn't Costa Rica use real addresses? by cafard on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:34PM (#35003609)
A number of vendors sell address correction software, and I imagine that the DMV can afford such a product.
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Re:Why doesn't Costa Rica use real addresses? by jessekv on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:17AM (#35006100)
In Spanish, 'oriental' is the east compass direction, and 'occidental' is the west compass direction.

I would translate it to "the East Polyclinic".

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Re:Why doesn't Costa Rica use real addresses? by PTcartelsLOL on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:22PM (#35047793)
Eastern and oriental are kind-of synonymous in Portuguese and I bet in most Latin languages.
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