How much population growth and new subdivision is going on in your former county?
The turnover of new data around here from construction is huge. Even as a percentage of the already large amount of static data for unchanging parcels.
In the 33 years It’s a Ski Town. $$$$. But now not many places are buildeable. Due to constrainsts on slope for where you can put a driveway or house.
So many lots get subdivided. That’s always a mess. When assigning addresses we left enough room for extra numbers and not the A/B stuff.
In one of the towns, it was originally laid out with 13 lots per block. Now there are 30 structures. So it turns into quite the mess.
One plat name I saw - “A final resudivision of the 4th replat of the amended 2nd subdivision of the 3rd replat.” (this is true)
I always wanted to respond “Are you sure this time? and where is the aspirin.” That all ties into addressing as well.
Update:
I met with the Postmaster, who explained some of the problem. But they were baffled by one detail.
So it takes a week or two for the Post Office to update / validate new addresses in their system. Other entities (my bank, my insurance company, etc) often validate client addresses from the Post Office database, but they don’t update their information all that often. Some may only do it once or twice a year, which explains why I’ve had problems changing my address with some of them. The advice is to just wait, or contact them directly (rather than make the change on their web sites).
What the Postmaster could not explain was why the actual Post Office system returned my change of address form incorrectly. I definitely entered the new address as I was told, which included no hyphen or hashtag symbols. But it came back with a hashtag. Postmaster says internally, a hashtag is their symbol for a P.O. Box, and doesn’t know why the system changed what I entered.
They are entering a correction in the Post Office database, which means I get another couple of weeks of not being able to change my address with some companies. This is starting to remind me of the movie Brazil.