How do you write an address?
April 21, 2008
Posted in: Computers, General, Nerdom
Tags: ability, address, business, computer, document, fact, format, haberdashery, knowledge, label, mail, paper, penmanship, pride, project, receipt, resume, screen, sentence, signature, snail, society, zip
I don’t think it’s gotten as bad as I’m going to make it out to be, but it’s something to consider for those who use a computer for a majority of their life, and those who have kids who are growing up using computers for everything.
I remember when when I was a kid being graded on penmanship, hey wait - I’m not that old, but I remember taking pride in my small neat cursive and getting marked accordingly. As I grew so did my writing, into a haberdashery of cursive mixed with block letters and scribbles. My signature is never the same even on one document (they loved me when I signed for my house). But what does it matter now? I don’t write much on paper, unless it’s to jot down a note or two or if I have to sign a receipt. In fact, except for the occasional thank you note I don’t think I’ve actually sat down and written a sentence in years.
Well it’s finally caught up to me. I was working on a project and I wanted to format the persons address, thinking that at some this project might want to have the ability to print a label for mailing or to look like a mailing label on screen.
I barely remember the format I learned back in 5th grade and so I tried it out.
name
address
address 2
…..
and that’s where I stopped. I got all caught up on the commas with the city, state, and zip. I know there’s one or two in there, but for the life of me I could not remember. I mean seriously, when was the last time I sent a piece of snail mail?
So I googled it and found a couple of different answers. The one that struck me familiar would have to be the right way, right?
name
[business]
address
[address 2]
city, state
zip
Isn’t that right? Well it looked right to me - but looking at the smug image they have over at the usps I might be wrong.
Though they don’t even specify exactly. But it looks like they completely ignore any commas. I know, why the heck am I getting hung up on this. I’m not really, it’s more to point out that as a computer/on line driven society we may be loosing our paper driven past, as in knowledge of how to write on paper properly. I don’t think I know how to form a proper letter anymore, and I know I don’t remember how to write out a resume format (there’s templates for all that..lol).
So how many things have your forgotten?
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April 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
I wrote a few postcards last year and the years before, actually some of them turned into letters.
Mainly to send friends some real pictures and some prints from a photo exchange thing.
Don’t ask me for American addresses. German ones are fairly easy
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
There’s no need to worry about forgetting, that’s what google and our cell phones are for. Right? lol I remember my very first phone number 753-2140, even my friend’s phone numbers 752-3723 753-0008 753-5310 752-4118 from way back when, but do I remember the last phone number I had before now? Not a chance. It’s crazy how many numbers we all had compartimentalized in our little brains…now our brains are stuffed with stupid shit like what rehab Lindsay went to.
ps I do remember how addresses are written, but that’s cause handle all the bills and Arizona Water still doesn’t have an option to pay online, so it’s the one and only check I write every month.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I only have 1 phone number memorized and that’s my wife’s. Other then that if I loose my phone, who-boy I’d be screwed. I can remember back in when I had my pager in the 90’s having to know phone numbers because that’s all you got, but once cell phones hit, that was it - no reason to remember anymore.