[USMA:23745] Re: a metric Christmas -- not really an SI topic

[Bill Potts]

I don't think you can apply the usual rules. After all, the postal code used is simply a variant of "Ho, Ho, Ho!" Although mail sorting is automated, shipping the sorted mail is a human activity. Locating the special seasonal function in Montreal just for that reason would represent a foolish consistency (which, as Ralph Waldo Emerson told us, is the hobgoblin of small minds).

 

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

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Subject: [USMA:23736] Re: a metric Christmas

In a message dated 2002-12-02 23:48:42 Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

North Pole, Canada, is a real postal address (from which real responses are
mailed), created for the benefit of kids. However, it's not a real place. I
suspect letters addressed there go to a special seasonally-staffed office in
Ottawa or somewhere.

Might be Quebec, since the initial "H" means metropolitan Montreal.  However, the following "0" (zero) would imply a rural area (1-9 = towns or cities). 

Carleton

Carleton