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by fergal_reid 1205 days ago
I personally received a letter to: "Fergal Reid, Longford, Ireland", in the late 90s. Ireland had no postcodes at the time.

I lived in a small village on the edge of a county called Longford; my name isn't that unique in Ireland.

The funny thing about the story, is that the letter was posted in the Philippines, and was physical spam mail, trying to hook me into some sort of scam. They had pulled the partial address from a domain name record. No idea how the economics of that worked!