We have a similar situation here - on a private road - and I do believe
the numbers were randomly assigned. Coming down the road, one
sequentially encounters 1062, then 1060, then 1063, then 1064 - 1061 has
been passed 1/4 mile before and there are intervening numbers between.
Somehow USPS, UPS and FedEx have figured it out. Google Earth has it
right, but most GPS units lump all those addresses in the middle of the
road.
So we have not had a problem with the carriers, but I am not sure how
they have figured it out. The department that assigns addresses is
connected with the USPS delivery addressing system, but I do not know
the order - to me it seems quite arbitrary, but there must be some
sensibility in what appears to be chaos.
Only once have I had a parcel delivered to the wrong house, and that was
by DHL - the other carriers have done a great job for me.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 6/9/2014 7:48 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
We have to tell visitors to ignore the numbers on the mail boxes, they
appear psuedo-random [they're not, but it's a long story]. We've had
new visitors looking for "670" [us] give up and backtrack when they
got to "680"[1/4 mi before us], and then do it again when some of the
boxes on the road across from our gravel driveway [including ours] are
in the 700's.
After some "Couldn't find address" situations with the carriers, I
wrote to UPS, FedEx, and our local Postmaster and explained the
problem and apparently it worked because we haven't had a
non-delivered "delivery" in years. I also put in some barbed wire on
the outside fences guaranteed to "keep elephants out." Must have
worked also, we have never had an elephant in the pastures ... that I
know of.
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