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Did you think of the mailman?

I get postal mail for someone living a few blocks away because they're technically in another suburb with a slightly worse reputation, and their real estate agent sold them on the idea they were in my suburb instead.

The post office, however, isn't paying attention to marketing or non-profit interest groups, it's paying attention to council zoning and regulation.

So every so often, I get mail addressed to a street name similar to mine, but in the next suburb over.

Names change over time, but when there's a central registry of names with a democratically founded process for managing those names, and the names are a public utility for locating things, it's best we don't just shit all over it and make up whatever we like because it suits us at the time.