Real-world URLs
In the midst of all the tedious tasks involved with moving countries, I had the following idea: Wouldn’t it be useful if you could use a web address for your postal address instead of a physical address? Then you just give the URL to people and when someone sends you a letter, they just write the URL on the envelope. Then the post office mail-sorting machines look up that URL and get your current physical address, and print it on the envelope.
Under this system, when you move, you just need to update your address once on the website, rather than telling many different people. I know most post offices will do mail redirection, but usually only temporarily. With an internet-based address system, it wouldn’t matter how long it was since you last moved, or how frequently you move.
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Good idea.. just need to work out the final sort that the mail carrier does usually by hand..
Maybe instead of a URL just put the person’s email address on their mail. It works online!
Although then people might get stuck with a cheesy email like hot_stud69@hotmail.com…
I actually did that on a couple of forms recently — I graduated and had no idea of where I would be. I just wrote my URL and said “you can find my current information there…”
But how would one distinguish different addresses such as home, work, club, job site, hideout, all of which might be valid concurrently?