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OT: What state am I in?
JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on December 31, 2020, 02:58:29 pm ---The MM.DD may be explained by the way the English language seems to invert everything (adjective before noun), but I am unsure if other countries have this as well (I didn't look).
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I'm pretty sure the US is the only place to do it.
Having lived a quarter of a century in the UK and then another in the US, I just give up when I see dates written DD/MM or MM/DD unless the day of the month >12. I always write dates DD-MMM-YY or DD-MMM-YYYY (e.g., 01-Jan-21), though not always with the hyphens.
I think the Japanese way is the most sensible.
JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: Brumby on December 31, 2020, 12:19:10 pm ---Oh, sorry ... it's not in the hands of USPS, so the odds are much better.
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All my nightmare experiences have been with DHL. I won't remind myself of the horrible details :)
rcbuck:
Last week I received notification from DHL that boards were out for delivery. I could click the link to authorize delivery without a signature. Since I was going to be home all day I authorized it as DHL always rings the doorbell when they make a delivery. Porch pirates aren't bad in my neighborhood.
At 3 pm I checked status and saw it was delivered at 12:50 pm. I had just looked at the front porch 5 minutes before and package wasn't there. When I looked at the proof of delivery photo I recognized the door mat as my neighbors. I went next door and got my package.
I called DHL to complain. I asked the person speaking broken English where their drivers went to school to learn to read numbers. He said someone would call me back within 6 hours. I never got a call. Next day I get an email asking how their delivery service was. I rated it a zero and told them they delivered the package to wrong house and if I hadn't recognized the door mat my package would have be lost forever. Not really true as neighbor is a good friend and she would have brought it over. I never received a call or another email from DHL.
No more authorization for DHL to deliver without signature. The drivers can't read house numbers. All the house numbers in the neighborhood are clearly marked with large 5 inch numbers on the very front of the houses.
sleemanj:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on December 31, 2020, 12:30:55 pm ---It always gives me the impression that somebody somehow looked at the information and decided "yeah, this person seems to have filled the info in the wrong fields - what an idiot. Let me change this bit, and that bit, and so on.".
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As a seller of things on t'internet, you would be surprised the number of people out there who have trouble with knowing their own addresses.
Wrong post code
Wrong suburb
Wrong number
Incorrect spelling
Wrong town
Non-deliverable address
Old address they don't live at any more
Address they never lived at
and of course the classic "I'm not rural (but I am)" address.
It is quite frequent that I have to resort to detective work, and google maps to actually interpret what their address should be when the national postal system's address lookup can't find it.
S. Petrukhin:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on December 31, 2020, 02:58:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on December 31, 2020, 01:52:29 pm ---Yes, we write the date according to the degree of importance: after all, more often we need to know the current day, not the year: dd.mm.yyyy
It is strange that in countries with an inverted address and date, the time was not reversed. :)
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Yes, I grew up with the *correct* order as well :box: . The MM.DD may be explained by the way the English language seems to invert everything (adjective before noun), but I am unsure if other countries have this as well (I didn't look).
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I think it's just a matter of tradition. Once, someone without thinking decided that it was so good, it spread and became common. It doesn't make much sense to change this because many people will become unaccustomed. The same is true of the metric system. In Russia, there was previously a primitive system of measuring with bast shoes, hands, and steps, but the moment came when the communists decided to break everything and switch to the metric system. They were not tolerant and did not hesitate to create inconvenience to someone during transition. :)
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