I can’t imagine a better result from mailing out Christmas cards than the solving of a German postal mystery for my old friend James. It all comes down to whether the seven in the “78” in his address should be crossed or not
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Interesting. Fits with my
Interesting. Fits with my memory of handwritten 1s in Europe (e.g. on cafe receipts) looking totally ambiguous to me, like they could as well be 7s as 1s. A few times I resolved it by noticing an actual 7, which was unambiguous because of the sever (new word for me). That’s when I saw the point of crossing 7s, which seemed down to idiosyncrasy over here.
Isn't this also because the
Isn't this also because the handwritten address is missing a postcode? As far as I know there's only one Warschauer Straße in Berlin, but that's not the case for other street names, and postcodes are standard in German addresses.
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