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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Our postal codes are 4 numbers and two letters. A lot of people that don't want to enter their adddress, give the postal code 1234AB and house number 123. That's enough to uniquely identify a house.
Turns out that's an actual postal code with house number! They get disconnected from phone, internet, gas, water, electricity every once in a while (people who don't want to play their bills give false addresses). As it is a corner house, the house now has another house number so, the problems have decreased (though it can take several years before the old address is gone from all databases...)
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My parents had that problem in the 1970s. It wasn't the address, it was the name. Guy in town had the same name as my dad. First name, middle initial, last name.
One time the state even tried to collect sales tax from my parents. I think it took mom 3 months to straighten that mess out.
We now have zip+4. The zip is a big area. The +4 is either 3 or 6 houses.