Joel Gwynn wrote:
>>According to the Post Office, all of Boston is OK to be called Boston,
>>differentiated by Zip Code. The parts of JP that are served by the JP
>>postoffice can be called JP. (Allston neighborhood in Brighton was named by
>>realtors since PO would deliver by the name of the post-office named for a
>>war-hero general, and they wanted to upscale it compared to Brighton ...)
>>
>>My house can be Boston, Fields Corner, or Dorchester, according to the
>>USPO. Even your tool won't understand "Fields Corner, MA" unless I give it
>>the Zip Code. The USPO.gov address fixer can do that, though.
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>
>
>When you get right down to it, this Boston "neighborhood" thing is
>just confusing. I work in Dorchester but management likes to put
>"Boston" on the stationary, which is confusing because there's an
>identical address in Boston proper, just with a different zip code.
>Are there any other cities that have similar naming schizophrenia?
>
>
>
Not that I'm aware of, not in this particular flavor. In the Twin
Cities, people like to designate their address as "Minneapolis" or
"Saint Paul" even if they're in some other municipality 20 miles from
town. In New York, Brooklyn _never_ uses neighborhood names in postal
delivery. (Never "Park Slope, NY" or "Brighton Beach, NY", etc.). Queens
_always_ uses neighborhood names ("Astoria, NY" or "Jamaica, NY" but
never "Queens").
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