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HOW DO LITTLE KIDS IN THE UK EVEN LEARN THEIR FUCKING ADDRESS

THEY ARE SO FUCKING LONG

damn

oh my god do not even fucking START with long, incomprehensible addresses with me!!!

you think the UK is bad? oh, please. that’s children’s stuff. Most of my job duties involve quality control for international mail-outs, and I swear to god I want to choke some of these people.

First off, a special mention: I know that in certain countries, the male is the head of the household. However, unless your husband or father is the one who’s going to be home to sign for your package, stop putting “d/o” or “w/o” (daughter of, wife of) in your address. UPS don’t have time for that. It takes up too many characters when the rest of your address is a million characters long because…

I hope to fuck that the local postal carriers can decypher these and that they mean something, because they mean fuck-all here:

18/82-8833/E/6/1

Dude, what the fuck? Also…

STOP FUCKING WRITING YOUR ADDRESS WITH DESCRIPTORS.

Okay, I understand that not every country has city streets lined up in neat little rows. Not every address is going to read “118 Smith Street North”, but for fuck’s sake, some of these border on the absolute insane.

BEHIND POST OFFICE
ACROSS FROM POLICE STATION
OPPOSITE SHOPPING CENTER PLAZA
NEAR TRAFFIC LIGHT
MIDDLE OF TOWN

And those are just the easy ones. God forbid you get an address with so many details the applicant tried to cram in that you have to abbreviate EVERYTHING in order to make it fit. “OPP” “B/H” “NR” “BLDG” “ZN” “LN” and basically deleting all punctuation and praying that it fits under the character limits. Nothing against China, but Chinese addresses have great big long words that can have 20-30 letters and take up an entire row. And you can’t abbreviate those because that’s the word. So you have to shift other things around and cut off the middle of sentances and hope that it still is readable by local post.

It’s a miracle we get any mail delivered at all. Especially when a bunch of it STILL comes back as “incomplete”.

(DON’T MAKE ME FUCKING GOOGLE YOUR POSTAL CODE. IF YOU LIVE IN A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY, YOU HAVE A FUCKING POSTAL CODE. UPS WON’T LET ME SEND WITHOUT ONE, AND NO, I WON’T JUST PUT IN A BUNCH OF ZEROS BECAUSE THEN IT WILL COME BACK TO ME. PUT IN YOUR FUCKING POSTAL CODE.)

THIS IS THE BEST FUCKING RANT I HAVE EVER READ

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*SLAMS FIST ON TABLE*

Special shout-out to Pakistan, which uses postal codes 100% of the time, but applicants only include about 25% of the time. Pakistan is notorious for not putting postal codes. PAKISTAN USES POSTAL CODES AND UPS WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO PRINT A LABEL WITHOUT ONE. SEND US YOUR FUCKING POSTAL CODE. YOU HAVE ONE. LEARN IT. USE IT.

Also, if you want to send to a P.O. box, FUCKING SAY SO. Don’t just put a string of numbers in your address, because if you just put a run of 3-7 numbers in, I might assume it’s your (MISSING) postal code and put it in the wrong box.

I’m sick of seeing an address with no address. No, I’m not kidding. They’ll put their name, city and state, and maybe their postal code. But in some places - like the Philippines, postal codes are just indicative of the entire CITY, so it’s not specific enough. TRUST ME, THE POST OFFICE IS NOT MAGICAL AND THEY WILL NOT KNOCK ON EVERY DOOR IN QUEZON CITY JUST TO FIND YOU. And special shout-out to people who do that for the middle east. WAY TOO MANY TIMES I SEE

Name Here
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia

FIVE MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN RIYADH THROW US A FRICKIN’ BONE HERE

with a name like “Name Here” I think it would be easy to find that person, even in Riyadh!

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