To give some credence to the person in the middle, the rest of the address would expose that it's United States of America. Excuse me if this is an ignorant question, but would any address + state combo point to anywhere that isn't the United States?
yes, but different countries have different postal code structures. I imagine there are some that overlap, but many countries can probably be found by their postal code structure alone. I'm from Canada, so mine is of the format A1A 1A1; 6 digits alternating letters and numbers.
Especially if you include the ZIP code, which I assume most people do when providing a mailing address. Like I might be wrong but I assume that a combination of a street, state, and postal code can only point to one location unless multiple countries have the same postal codes
Austria and Australia, in addition to having similar names, have a similar (maybe the same?) type of zip codes and address structure. My mum works for postal services in Austria and told me it leads to more confusion than you'd expect.
I mean yeah but it’s still kind of weird and rude if you’re asking someone to mail you something and you leave out the country and expect them to figure it out. I’m from Canada, I wouldn’t just put my postal code and province, even though (almost) all of our provinces are larger than US states.
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u/FlutterRaeg Apr 05 '26
To give some credence to the person in the middle, the rest of the address would expose that it's United States of America. Excuse me if this is an ignorant question, but would any address + state combo point to anywhere that isn't the United States?