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[SunValley]

Title company, city street sign installers, and utilities cannot agree on Lucky St. Lucky Ct, or Lucky Dr. My subdivision has been developed for over 15 years and is still missing on lots of GPS systems. Doordash delivers for Walmart and sends drivers 2 miles away to another subdivision. They won’t read the special instructions and end up calling for directions.

[faeriemoon]

Kind of.  I live on a "drive", but somehow in the mail system it comes up as "court."  Always confusion with a GPS, or ordering something online and getting the message "address preference, _______ Court."

Certainly not the biggest problem in the world, but it can be annoying.

[loriqvc]

As a sidenote, although the technology is amazing, I feel some delivery drivers depend far too much on GPS instead of using common sense and checking street signs. In the case of my parents' street naming woes that I shared earlier in the thread, the street signs might only be helpful if the driver has a great attention to detail (i.e., noticing the difference between "Waterleaf" and "Water Leaf" on a sign).

However, in my own case, one set of neighbors and I often have to do package exchanges or dropoffs because somehow having the same house number but being on different streets is too difficult to navigate for some drivers.

Example 1: I tried to sign up for deliveries from a great local dairy, but after I called in five weeks in a row to report a lack of delivery, my subscription was cancelled. The driver either claimed the address was incorrect and returned to the dairy with the goods, or he said the goods were delivered even though I never got them. A very patient service rep and I finally figured out that the driver was relying on the combination of a very old Google image and the GPS coordinates to figure out where he was going, or he was sometimes on the wrong street (that was where the "delivered" items ended up).

Example 2: For the first few months of Amazon's proprietary courier service in my area, my neighbors one street over got my packages 75% of the time, but things have gotten much better lately. And now that Amazon offers photos of many deliveries, I can at least tell whether my package is on my back porch as specified in the delivery instructions or whether it ended up on my front porch, on my neighbor's porch, or somewhere that is just plain wrong (happened recently), which helps if I need to track something down quickly.

Sorry to hijack the thread a bit, but this has been swirling around in my brain since my earlier post about weird street naming, so I thought I'd share. 

[Mominohio]

We live in a rural area where the roads are numbered, like county road 145 or township road 97 etc. Many GPS systems don't recognize numbered roads, and substitutes very old names the roads had back in the horse and buggy days. 

Names like where the road begins and where it ends, come up as the name, like Plymouth Shiloh road, because the road runs between those two towns. 

None of the numbers or names I listed are my address or near my address, just made them up. 

[Mominohio]

Also the town I grew up in, which really isn't all that large, maybe 50,000 in population, has a bad habit of having several streets with the same name. There will be a First Street, and a First Ave. There will be Stewart Rd, Stewart Lane, and Stewart Place. Makes things difficult when people only know you live on Stewart!

[ECBG]

In our private developement, the main road ends in "Road", ours is the same name, ending in "Drive".

If the name were "Morningstar", the main part is Morningstar Road.  I would be Morningstar LANE.  Their house with the same number as ours constantly swap mail with us.  He is a professional photographer and his deliveries are much too heavy for me to take there.

This development (although, not all of the 25 houses) is over 40 years old!

Go figure!

[Abrowneyegirl]

OP here-

After reading some of the comments here and pondering this and using Google maps....

We are going to try to use our house number and the physical street address with verbal directions.  Fortunately we live in a well known planned community development in an easy to get to location.

So once I tell people the development most people know where we are it is just finding the house.

If people will LISTEN to the directions instead of relying on GPS we may be okay.  The problem is going to be is that people do not listen.

Fingers crossed

[VaBelle35]

I have a very confusing address.  Lots of nines in the house number plus the name of the street starts with the word "nine."

It's amazing I ever get mail.