<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:48 PM, William Herrin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Your postal address is assigned through an odd combination of<br>developers' whimsy and municipal government function. The developer<br>generally picks the street name, the municipality picks the house<br>number. The address assignment is usually free, never has a recurring<br>cost and is effectively irrevocable once assigned. It conveys to the<br>next owner without further oversight by the directory authority.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great analogy! Because you chose it exactly right, but your conclusion is wrong.</div><div><br></div>Re-addressing does happen, usually under the guidance of a locally elected council of peers. It doesn't happen often, but it *does* happen and the courts have repeatedly reaffirmed that you do not own your address.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>The post office adds a zip code to the address but is required by<br>congress to make best efforts at delivering letters without a zip code<br>or with the wrong zip code.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Wrong again. The post office has automatically and electronically rejected addresses which don't exist in the zip code for 10+ years in many areas. I personally fought a court case on that issue (because their computers were wrong and were rejecting valid mail) and lost the case because they have no such mandate.</div><br><div>
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