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[Abrowneyegirl]

Some of the stories here are a hoot!

I will say we have no problems getting mail or packages (and heavens knows I get a lot of packages!!!)

[sue311]

@Abrowneyegirl We had recently moved to a townhouse where apparently the county had changed the street name and did not inform anyone so I went to the Post Office and told them. I also informed Goggle (yes you can do that) and had no issues after.  I smiled the first time I saw it on Google ....I said you did that girl

[aubnwa01]

The addresses on both sides of the street at my previous home were even numbered.  It confused so many people that would come to do work or whatever, because they'd invariably be looking at the other side of the street & drive right on by, think they had a few more houses to go.  My house number was 2722 & the house directly across the street was 2738!  I think someone must've been smoking something when they addressed the houses back in 1968 when the houses were built!

[queendiva]

I can't even explain my late mother's last addres. Interior street inside a gated condo community,her street was not on GPS and had no cross street. Even the locals could not find it.

The problem I have at my new address is not finding it- I think my mail carrier is either sloppy, careless or dyslexic. She lost a clothing item I ordered from QVC. Delivered it to another address, but she had no idea where. Has done this to my neighbor as well. We both put her on notice. A week later she delivers to me a package addressed to 1117 M*** ST. i am at 117 M^^^ Cir.in a nearby development a mile or so away.

i told her I will report all future delivery errors to her supervisor.

[jackthebear]

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@queendiva wrote:

I can't even explain my late mother's last addres. Interior street inside a gated condo community,her street was not on GPS and had no cross street. Even the locals could not find it.

The problem I have at my new address is not finding it- I think my mail carrier is either sloppy, careless or dyslexic. She lost a clothing item I ordered from QVC. Delivered it to another address, but she had no idea where. Has done this to my neighbor as well. We both put her on notice. A week later she delivers to me a package addressed to 1117 M*** ST. i am at 117 M^^^ Cir.in a nearby development a mile or so away.

i told her I will report all future delivery errors to her supervisor.

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you should report to the Postmaster, 

[jackthebear]

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@Abrowneyegirl wrote:

When we built our last home we had a few hard years of our new development still being noted as a farm field on GPS systems.  In time that corrected itself and I forgot the headaches we had....

We have recently moved to an established community that is a planned community.

We have a new and improved problem.

For example:  The community as a whole is called Village of Shady Trees

We live *********in the sub-development of Acorn Court.

**************  There is no street called Acorn Court.  Nor are any of the sub-developments labeled with individual signs (it caused confusion ??!!??)

GPS takes you close to our home but not the house but a common garden space within the Village of Shady Trees.  People of course are looking for a street called Acorn Court.

I make a point of trying to explain this in detail to tradesman, delivery drivers, etc and they always say, its ok Google will find it........until they call lost.

I may be destine to spend my days outside flagging people down.

Any suggestions??  We can not be the only ones with this problem.

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one way might be to find the actual GPS coordinates of your location and give those out? or down thread a poster reported the issue to Google pursue that

[GingerPeach]

This is a fascinating thread.  Who knew?

I thought I had troubles because my street name is the same for my "Court" as well as the adjoining "Place" and "Drive."  I also have the same house number as someone about a half mile away who lives at a differently named "court" than I do but that starts with the same letter.  We now have each other's phone numbers and email addresses to alert the other when we get each others mail.

Example:  Cobblestone Court, Cobblestone Place, Cobblestone Drive

Example:  2510 Cobblestone Court

                2510 Confusing Court

(not real addresses)

[aroc3435]

@Abrowneyegirl Yes, my last address was 22 Sycamore Ave.  In the same Connecticut City there was a 22 Sycamore Street.  Both in the same zip code, about a mile and a half apart.  

I got very friendly with my postman and UPS delivery people and taxi drivers very quickly.  Had to constantly remind people I lived on the avenue, not the street.  

When I first moved there Comcast insisted their installer had come and I wasn't there to let him in.  Told them I was sitting right on the front porch the entire day.

Still had to wait two weeks for the next available appointment and take another day off from work.

Now I live in DC on a numbered street--say 17th St. Southeast.  Problem is DC is set up in directional quadrants of NE, SE, NW, SW so I often get confused food delivery and repair people.  Had a plumber knock the other night and told him he wanted the same numbered street but in the Northeast, not where he was--Southeast.  

DC is extremely tricky when driving--a couple of wrong turns and you are on your way to or in Maryland or Virginia and you can't just retrace because of one ways, tunnels, confusing exit and merge signs, circles, alleys, and wide boulevards with grass meridians.  You can feel you are on the enless loop of a road paved with good intentions gone terribly wrong!

So I am on a first name basis with my regular UPS guy here, as well.  Can't do that with the mail carriers here so far--there are too many different ones and most of them are always chatting, head down, on their cell phones.  Had to chase one down two blocks when they were doing the food drive this month on Saturday.  She had headphones on and didn't hear me calling to her.  Bag of food was on a table--labeled "USPS FOOD DRIVE" right beneath my mail box.

At least I caught her and saw her put the food in the bin in her truck.  I didn't want to have to take it to the PO via the Metro and probably would not have gotten there before they closed at noon.

[Lucky Charm]

Years ago where we lived, there was another exact address about 3 miles away, but different zip.

GPS automatically took you to our house, if you were searching for the other house.

Therefore, many deliveries were left at our front door.  Some times huge items.

DishTV attempted to put up one those crazy contraptions on the front of our garage (ARGH!!!).

When the other house went on the market, homebuyers and agents showed up at our house.  Not only knocking on the door, but walking around the yard, taking pictures....

When the other house sold, the electric company turned off the electric out our house and we were 2000 miles away and didn't have a clue.

I won't go into the nightmare that happened when a van full of *maids* cleaned my house instead of the other. house

[Drythe]

@Mz iMac 

Beautiful woods, hope you enjoy them!

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We live on an unpaved, dead end road, off of another unpaved dead end road.  We pay to maintain the roads, clear the snow & ice, as well as any trees that fall on them.  It is hard work to get a bit of privacy!