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[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The misnumbered/not numbered houses is still a big issue. GPS can only be relied on to get you in the general area, and even then sometimes it points you to the middle of a field.

My real gripe is apartments. People will often fail to give you the apartment number and even if they do, every single complex has their own numbering system and layout. There is one complex near here where the signs on the buildings are completely illegible at night due to the lights above them casting shadows. I hate having to go there.

[-] otacon239@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

The rare times a complex had a map of the complex when I was delivering was a godsend.

[-] vivavideri@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I once lived in a complex where Google had my apartment so wrong I'd have to stick gps coordinates in the delivery instructions.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca -3 points 7 months ago

Almost every apartment complex I have ever been in has followed the exact same numbering pattern.

A single building will have the floors be a letter with each unit being a number like 01 while a multi building complex will have the buildings designated as letters and will use 3 digit numbering schemes starting in the 100s. The first digit applies to floor while the second two apply to units.

If a complex has more than 26 buildings, that is when things become funky. The 27th building will likely be the AA building and it will either be the second building chronologically. Next comes BB and it will either be the 4th or 28th building, and so on.

Another thing they might do is just have those duplicate named buildings be sectioned off into a slightly more prestigious part of the property, gate it off and give it a name like Chateau @ Bronson Heights (assuming the apartment complex is named Bronson heights). If something like that is done, they will just completely restart the numbering convention.

Also, if a complex layout doesn't seem like it makes sense while being driven, say an E next to an S, imagine it with a top down view, they likely named left to right regardless of cul de sacs, so you should have a rough idea of where each building logically should be if not chronological by drive.

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

You really think you’ve lived in enough apartment complexes to know better than a delivery driver?

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

What specifically about my post made you angry and defensive?

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

What specifically about my post makes you think I’m angry? And defensive doesn’t even make sense as we haven’t spoken before. Maybe take a deep breath yeah?

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I apologize but you seemed to think I was attacking your career, which in no way was my intention.

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I’m not the delivery driver you replied to. I just thought it was dismissive to reply to a person saying “it’s difficult to figure out apt numbers” with a long explanation on why they’re wrong and how it’s actually easy.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Why would you find it dismissive of me to take time out of my day to give somebody a basic overview of the very thing they outright told me confused them?

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Because your source of info is places you’ve lived at personally, and I assume a delivery driver would have seen a wider range of apartments than you. So without additional context, you seem to be making assumptions that most places would be like the ones you’ve seen, and “correcting” someone based on that assumption.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Most people over the age of 30 have probably worked at least once as a driver in some capacity, champ.

Go pick a fight with somebody else over something actually important.

[-] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

No need to be so defensive, champ.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I'm not defensive, I'm just not interested in engaging in the sort of hostile confrontation you seem to have been looking for.

[-] azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I live in an apartment complex where the only distinguisher between the two halves is street number, they share a name entirely and have the same numbers.

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