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CaliFlowers said:


Also, (and this is more common than many would suspect) a person's postal delivery address is not necessarily indicative of the city or town or other geopolitical area within which they reside. The city designation of a postal delivery address is, in most cases, simply that of the post office which receives and delivers the mail to that address.

Exactly. I live in a rural area near the hamlet in which I grew up. We have a Post Office Box at the local Post Office just a mile from the house. BUT our street address lists a city seven miles away. Why? Because that's where mail deliveries originate, if you choose to get your mail on a rural route.

It gets confusing at times, especially when you order things on the Internet. If they're being shipped by US Mail, they have to come to the PO Box; but if they're being shipped by UPS or FedEx, they have to go to the street address.