Address on homes

[debodun]

It's an ordinance in my town that all homes must post their address number in a highly visible place. I believe this stemmed from emergency responder who had trouble finding a house because the address wasn't visible. In walking around my new neighborhood, I still see some houses with no numbers either on the houses or their mailboxes. Most have their address numbers on either or both the houses and mailboxes. Some even put their family names on the mailboxes. I am wondering why some people fail to follow the ordinance.

 

[Manatee]

We lived in a town where the houses had dual action porch light switches. One way was a normal porch light switch. The other way when activated made the porch light blink.

 

[Tom52]

All houses in our town require the house number in the front window. There is one house in our neighborhood that has the house number on the front window plus above the garage door and painted on the driveway and on a sign hanging on the the light post in the front yard and on a plaque placed in the shrubbery. I guess they want to be sure EMS can identify their home if needed.

 

[hollydolly]

There's no laws anywhere in this country that states the number on your home should either be there.. or if it, is be Visible.. When I worked for a short time as a courier for a national courier company many years ago..it was the bane of my life, and also for every delivery person, not to be able to see a house number .

In this country especially our in the rural shires people tend to christen their house ''maple cottage' or something ..and forget or deliberately omit the number .. well when the parcel or mail is addressed to number 7 acacia avenue, maple cottage doesn't get it.. and it goes back to the warehouse there's no correlation with the 2... The delays caused by lack of visible numbers has been a regular cause of people not getting the emergency responders to their homes in time...

 

[Nathan]

While I was working in the county jails, and later in a state prison I did not display my residential address in case some disgruntled inmate decided to look me up. In reality they could have found me anyway, just need a name and town to google.

I worked at suppressing those search sites, first thing was to request that county property tax collector/recorder take my name off their public accessible records, then issue take-down requests to each search site. All pretty futile, Google has mapped the entire planet, mapped every(well, most) locals worldwide.

UPS and Amazon can find me, they're not looking for street numbers posted, they're looking at a navigation app.

 

[Alligatorob]

I am wondering why some people fail to follow the ordinance.

Oh probably procrastination, not believing its important, or not knowing of the ordnance.

I lived in an area that had no house numbers. When they decided we needed them the County put up little signs in front of all the houses. That worked a lot better than telling people to do it.

 

[Jules]

I am wondering why some people fail to follow the ordinance.

Probably the ‘you can’t tell me what to do‘ philosophy. If I need to call EMS, I want them to arrive at the right place.

Many years ago here the local government installed numbers at the end of the rural properties.

 

[dseag2]

It is hit and miss here, even in our neighborhood, but our house has the addressed embedded in the brick in the form of a plaque. We moved from Florida, where no addresses were displayed, and thought it was kinda neat.

 

[Judycat]

I don't have my number displayed except on the mailbox. Even then I get other people's mail sometimes.

 

[dobielvr]

In addition to it being on our homes somewhere visible, homeowners will have it painted on their curbs in front of their homes.
Usually it's done by someone trying to earn extra money, and they'll come by and knock on your door for permission and payment.

Mine is currently faded, it needs repainting.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

debodun said, " I am wondering why some people fail to follow the ordinance." I don't know, either. If you gave everybody $1,000,000, there would be some that would yell and scream about getting the cash and they would refuse it. Why did some refuse to wear a paper mask during a pandemic ????? If there was a poll with the question, "Are you alive" 10-15% would answer "Don't know".

 

[Capt Lightning]

I live in a small village where the some of the houses have names and some have numbers. I've had no luck in trying to trace the history of my house, and when looking at old post office directories, no addresses were given in the village, only for outlying farms. The directory contained just names and occupations so presumably the postman knew most residents by name - like Mr. Smith, the blacksmith or Mr. Jones, the shopkeeper.