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by anticensor 2408 days ago
> They go to great lengths to understand where to deliver the mail/parcel

Only for private unregistered mail. Registered mail is required to specify the address accurately.

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Define 'accuracy' though. That's what this whole thread is about. When what you're comparing against is itself wrong, what does accuracy mean? Also, "big yellow house with a red door" etc. is in fact accurate for that place.
That's the whole issue: a random coder decides "and this is my idea what's acceptable: Google Maps/whatever finds it from the input string; worksforme, done!" without second thought or even authority to make such decision; this, an operational decision, gradually becomes doctrine, even dogma.