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In article <dave.785004269@babel.ho.att.com>,
Dave Hayden <dave@edo.ho.att.com> wrote:
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>This system has a serious drawback in that it makes actually
>DELIVERING the mail a real nightmare.  Should a letter addressed to
>someone right on the border of countries A and B be sent to the
>airport in A or the airport in B?  Should postal routes be based on a
>grid system?  What if 4 grids come together at the top of a remote
>mountain, will 4 separate postmen have to drive up the circuitous
>route to the mountain top?
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>Grids are great for mapping applications, but I think postal codes
>must be based on poiltical and practical considerations.
>
>Dave
>

Don't exaggerate the problem.  If an address was exactly on the border,
I think whichever country could deliver the mail to it depending on
their convenience.  It's not a problem.  If 4 grids come together at
anywhere, it does not mean that it is necessary to let four postmen to
share this area.  A computer sorting machine should include lots of
information, such as the local geographical information, road and
street distribution, and post offices locations, etc, which will 
determine the optimized transport and delivery route.  For sorting
international mails, a sortng program will take into account all the
information about the countries borders, main airports, airlines,
and some post agreements between countries, etc; so all the mails
will be sorted and transported through optimization much better
than the existing postal code system which have fixed routes
for the transportation and delivery of mails.

We can leave the postal code system independent of politics and
practical considerations and let the computer sorting program to
take care all these.  As the computers have reached such a high
level, it will not be any problems to realize it.

The other important thing is that many groups in the world need
to use geocode to locate an address, such as: ambulance, fire
fighters, police, express delivery agents, taxi drivers.  Do you
think that we need all different geocodes to represent one address?
Do you like to and are you able to remember all these codes for 
your address?  

You know, just because of the time wasted in the location of an address,
many people are losing their lives and property due to serious deseases,
fires, crimes.  An introduction of the natural area coding system to the 
public can not only supply a global postal code system but make people 
to know and be able to remember their absolute coordinates of their 
addresses on the earth with the resolution to 25 to 50 meters.  Once 
something happens, they can tell exactly where they are and the emergent a
gents can use very simple maps with NAC grid to locate the addresses 
immediately to save all the time usually wasted in the location of an 
address.  This time can vary from several minutes to half hour depending
on the development level.  Do you know what this time mean?

Xinhang Shen