| ▲ | stingraycharles 17 hours ago |
| Where I currently live, my street has no name, my house has no number. If a package is delivered by mail, my phone number needs to be put on the package, and the local delivery operator calls me to either pick it up, or I send my location through telegram and they deliver it to my house. It’s almost entirely impossible to order through Amazon et al using this type of system, it’s just not supported at all. The same goes for my country or origin (in EU), they require my address in order to be able to send important mail. It’s just not possible because of the computer systems not accepting anything without a zipcode, address and house number. |
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| ▲ | BobaFloutist 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| What's preventing some local authority from just naming your street? And what's preventing you and your neighbors from having a meeting, agreeing on a numbering convention, and putting street numbers on your house? I guess it would be a bit silly/meaningless if you don't have your street name. |
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| ▲ | dataflow 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > It’s almost entirely impossible to order through Amazon et al The "almost" is interesting - how do you do it in reality? |
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| ▲ | stingraycharles 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I provide an address that looks technically correct, ensure it’s delivered with DHL, and then override DHL to pick up at one of their locations. Also, there are special delivery companies like CamboQuick that take the whole process out of your hands and use (slow) ships freight to ship stuff from Amazon et al to Cambodia. You’ll have to wait 4-6 weeks, but they handle the custom clearance and everything and deliver it to your house for a $2 fee. |
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| ▲ | duped 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How do you specify your location? GPS coordinates? |
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| ▲ | bfdm 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I imagine with something like: Person name,
Local-area name,
Region Name,
Country name,
Phone number This gets it to the nearest handler to the local area, who then needs to know where the person lives or call them. | | |
| ▲ | stingraycharles 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is correct. <my name>, <my phone>, Siem Reap, Cambodia works. It’s just not accepted. So I’ll just fill in random numbers at zip code and street names and the delivery companies over here generally know how to deal with it. |
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| ▲ | sam_lowry_ 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Telegram location sharing, he said. | | |
| ▲ | stingraycharles 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | They check my phone number on telegram. If it exists, they usually reach out on telegram, and ask whether I want to pick it up or prefer delivery. If I want delivery, I share my location over telegram and a bit later someone comes on his motorbike to deliver the package. |
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| ▲ | rblatz 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why don’t you name your road and assign a house number? Either just make it up, or to make it more official contact your local government and propose a name and numbering scheme for it. |
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| ▲ | bobsmooth 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Have you tried adding delivery instructions? But I guess you couldn't complete an Amazon order without an address. |
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| ▲ | jbl0ndie 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | I remember a time before Ireland set up postcodes (zip codes) for the whole country. If postcode was mandatory field in an e-commerce address form, you couldn't mail stuff from the UK unless it was in Dublin. Dublin had postcodes. I managed to find one site that would accept 'null' so the form would submit. | | |
| ▲ | wheybags 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I used to just do "n/a", "na", "none", or "0000", whatever would make it accept. | |
| ▲ | gsck 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ireland's postcode system now is a thing called Eircode, which each eircode maps to your address exactly |
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