They say 'Rue Saint Louis', which is an alternate name for the street (but not the official postal name) or they say 'S T Louis Street'. I think the post office uses the different zip codes to sort things out; but that doesn't help with street routing which can get pretty screwed up depending on your device. People here are actually pretty used to saying "S T Louis" for different uses (for example, my email address). The street signs on St Louis St actually say "Rue St Louis" (with no street abbreviation).
Brett Lord-Castillo Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer St. Louis County Police Office of Emergency Management 14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive Chesterfield, MO 63017 Office: 314-628-5400 Fax: 314-628-5508 Direct: 314-628-5407 -----Original Message----- From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:23 PM To: Lord-Castillo, Brett Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions On 8 April 2010 15:48, Lord-Castillo, Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > One issue with using unabbreviated names, is sometimes the abbreviations are > part of the official name. > Examples here: > 1st Community CU Dr (First Community Credit Union goes to a -different- > address) > River City Blvd/River City Casino Blvd; many people think the first is an > abbreviation of the former. It isn't, two different streets that will route > mail (and traffic) to two different sets of addresses > St Louis Street, which is different from Rue St Louis, which is different > from Saint Louis Street and Saint Louis Boulevard, which is still different > from The Boulevard St Louis. In each of those cases, the non-type > abbreviations are part of the name and expanding the abbreviations can turn > them into different streets. In "1st Community CU Dr" when you read it out, I guess you do say "... CU Drive". But the St Louis Street vs. Saint Louis Street? They're pronounced exactly same way and I'm sure 90% people will write both of them as "St Louis Street" in rush, are there seriously cases where these are different addresses? What do the people living at St Louis St say on the phone when asked for address? Cheers
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