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by yoz-y 3396 days ago
Fun factoid. Staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet each month to exchange wrongly addressed mail. http://www.slovak-republic.org/slovenia/#politicians
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Another fun thing I have heard multiple times is that ordering electronics from China to "Ljubljana, Slovakia" somehow makes it from China to Slovakia and then Slovenia without going through customs in any of those two countries.

Does anyone know why this would be? Or maybe is it just pure luck?

I have heard something similar about Austria and Australia
There's a lot of t-shirts sold in Vienna tourist shops with kangaroos on it - they seem to have embraced it :)
That is amazing!
I imagine that creates a special bond over time. :) In Sweden there are two municipalities who shared a website for a long time. Ironically? the HÅBO muni got to keep http://HABO.se while the HABO muni had to settle for http://HABOkommun.se