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Originally Posted by harls
Giving your postal code is almost the same as giving your address (for me, anyway) - I live on a tiny street, and there are about 10 other houses in Gatineau that share my same code.
It all depends though.. the place where I grew up had one postal code for the entire town of 2500 people, and everyone got their mail from boxes at the lone post office.
One other habit I've started is to give a 'junk' email address when entering contests and crap. I will purposely make a mistake in the spelling of my name to know who's been trading the information. Jean-Coutu had a booth set up at the Balloon festival this year and asked for your name and email address to win a prize. I signed up with my junk email and misspelled name. Surprise.. I'm getting offers from other stuff with that name and address. Those email lists must be worth a lot of money!
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In the old days I used to do that with my street address by playing with the generic in the address like Avenue, Road, Boulevard, Court, etc.
Even if the generic is wrong the mail will always get through if the house number, the specific (Maple, Oak, Flanagan) and postal code are correct.
Unless of course your city has a Maple Lane in one part of town and a Maple Street in another area.
Which was never the case with my street names.
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