This is going to anger at least one of you
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So I got new house numbers due to the whole “we got the house number wrong 19 years ago and we’re finally fixing it now” issue. Work happily got the numbers for me. But the 2 and 6 are flat, while the 1 has a raised lip around it. It won’t bug me, but here’s hoping the next person who lives in the house isn’t OCD about it.
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@cb as long as it's somewhere visible. The people around here like to paint theirs on planks with 2 inch high numbers and nail it eight feet up a tree.
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@cb you should get a different 6 so they're all different
Weiner
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@noodles Ransom note style. Every number is visually distinct.
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@facw I learned over the break that Minnesota will actually cheaply sell you a standardised house number that goes at the end of your driveway and I think every jurisdiction in the world needs to get on this.
The person reading this is a doo-doo head
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@cb Unacceptable.
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Many rural communities offer these, and they are highly recommended by first responders. Where my parents lived in Massachusetts, they were available through the town hall.
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@onlytwowheels said in This is going to anger at least one of you:
Many rural communities offer these, and they are highly recommended by first responders. Where my parents lived in Massachusetts, they were available through the town hall.
Can confirm, as a first responder it’s great to see house numbers.
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@onlytwowheels As a former delivery driver, I concur. Not just for the safety of whomever's in an emergency, but also for the safety of other road users because trying to find an address while driving is SUPER distracting.
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@CB Do you guys not get those reflective civic numbers there? The government provides standardized light-reflective civic numbers here if you want them for a reasonable fee....white text on a cobalt-blue background. You don't HAVE to use them here, and they aren't required by law, but almost everybody uses them here other than in urban areas (and even there a lot of folks do)
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@rallydarkstrike
I noticed that when I was touring around your area a few years ago. We don’t have that out on the west coast.
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@classicdatsundebate Yeah, that's a cool idea....though only works where there is a curb to stencil
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@rallydarkstrike Only rural areas have them here. My rule of thumb is if your postal code/FSA has a "0" as the second digit, or formerly had a "0" in it, you probably have one. They're so ubiquitous here that they actually may be legally required. (citation def needed on that though).
Urban developments do not have them at all.
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@classicdatsundebate curb numbers are good but there need to be at least three different number placements. Curb, mailbox, and house. The curb ones are very helpful for late night food delivery drivers.
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@jarrett said in This is going to anger at least one of you:
My rule of thumb is if your postal code/FSA has a "0" as the second digit, or formerly had a "0" in it, you probably have one.
My zip code has that but it's one of the least rural zip codes around. What are your sources on that?
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@cb You are a terrible person for inflicting this on us. I might not sleep tonight thinking about this. Thanks CB! /s
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@whoistheleader ZIP codes are in no way related to Postal Codes/FSAs
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@rallydarkstrike said in This is going to anger at least one of you:
@CB Do you guys not get those reflective civic numbers there? The government provides standardized light-reflective civic numbers here if you want them for a reasonable fee....white text on a cobalt-blue background. You don't HAVE to use them here, and they aren't required by law, but almost everybody uses them here other than in urban areas (and even there a lot of folks do)
A lot of houses outside of town aren’t assigned a number, they just have a land location.
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@cb Like....a 'land location' on a grid?
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@rallydarkstrike said in This is going to anger at least one of you:
@cb Like....a 'land location' on a grid?
Correct!
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Back when addresses had fixed phone numbers they used to number houses after the last 4 digits of your phone number. For rural Ontario at least
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@essextee said in This is going to anger at least one of you:
@facw I learned over the break that Minnesota will actually cheaply sell you a standardised house number that goes at the end of your driveway and I think every jurisdiction in the world needs to get on this.
This makes the hinterlands on MN so incredibly uniform, too.
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@jarrett When I was a kid, our house was on a rural route with just a mile marker as the address, we got an actual street address when the 911 emergency number came to our area.
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@cb You Prairie folk are weird
