Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!ljdickey From: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: house numbers Message-ID: <8556@watmath.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 15:18:20 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.8556 Posted: Tue Aug 7 15:18:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:29:08 EDT References: gloria.410 <331@houxb.UUCP>, <112@mhuxn.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 > In Japan, the houses are numbered in the order that they're built and > registered at the ward office. It's quite possible for two buildings > on the same street to have the same number if they're in different > wards. A freind of mine, who lived in Japan for a couple of years, was advised to send himself a postcard every day until he started receiving them. This would signal that the postman had found him, and from then on should expect to get his mail. -- Lee Dickey, University of Waterloo. (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP) ... {allegra, decvax} !watmath!ljdickey