Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote:

> necoandjeff wrote:
> > United States. Worst case is it would be sent back to the sender with
> > a "no such addressee" stamp. But I agree that you are taking a chance
> > on it not being delivered by getting cute with the names.
> 
> True. In the United States, I have addressed mail to my grandparents to
> "Grandma and Papa Santa, # street city state zip" for about 25 years now,
> never had a letter fail to reach them.
> 
> However, I have twice had the post office in Japan call me to confirm
> letters addressed to my house should be sent to me. One time it was a letter
> addressed to my mother while she was visiting us, another was because my
> name was spelled wrong or somesuch.

...whereas at one point I thought we had been designated the local
redistribution agent for all romaji-addressed letters to this area. Go
figure.

The only time I've been contacted by the post office was when a postman
rang the doorbell to ask if I was the addressee on the envelope he was
holding. I apologised for the weird mangling of the address, mentioning
that I'd been trying for years to persuade that person to get it right,
so he told me to try harder because they're getting fed up at guessing
(the mangling of the words was not too bad, but the *chome* number
didn't exist).  

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