I just discovered that a piece of mail was delivered to our house by mistake. I decided to drop it off on the nearby street. Nearly all of the houses there did not have visible numbers, either on the curb or on the house.
Now, this isn’t an emergency, but what if it were? Someday it might cost precious time if an ambulance, etc. couldn’t find your home.
To quote Jean-Luc Picard, if your house number’s not visible, including at night: “Make it so.”
Yes. This area is so heavily wooded that almost no houses are visible from the street, but the local fire department subsidizes reflective, high-viz address signs that almost everyone has out on their mailboxes by the roads. We’ve got one.
There are plenty of houses that don’t even have visible numbers in broad daylight.
I work at people’s homes. At least once a week I end up driving up and down a street finding the correct number by process of elimination. They always have a good excuse why they have no street number, post fell down, they took the numbers off the house when they were painting etc. It’s certainly not my job to enforce house numbers but when I return 5 years later to the same excuse I want to slap them. Put a number on your house already and keep it there. They get no break on my hourly rate for time spent finding thier unidentified home.
Nope, and it’s common for people to come by and offer to paint reflective numbering on the curb.
No and I must take care of it.
Mine is, both on the house (under the porch light) and on the curb (except when our irritating neighbor parks in front of it). I am a pet sitter and often go to new clients homes in the evening. I hate it when I can’t see the house numbers anywhere.
We have no numbers on the house. When we bought the place, thesewere our house numbers, as well as some tacky adhesive numbers on one of the porch posts. They’re all gone now. The only numbers are on the mailbox at the end of the driveway. No curbs, so no curb numbers. I’ve thought on and off about putting up something. But the pizza delivery folks find us just fine, as well as the trucks that pick up charity donations, so the mailbox numbers seem to work.
No, but.
We are on a private drive that comes off of a small side street. Additionally, we are the last of three homes on that private drive. In order to see our house number you would need to know where our house is located.
If you happen to live in Carmel-by-the-Sea (CA), houses do not have street numbers. They have names. If you need to identify your house, you give the Street it’s on and its location to the nearest cross street.
“Junipero, 3 SE of 2nd” = My house is on the East side of Junipero, 3 houses north of 2nd.
We’ve tried. It’s hard. We have some nice but not-very-visible numbers. We recently supplemented with a new number, which we aimed a light at. The light is solar-powered and not very bright. And the ideal location for it would have been hanging in mid-air. But it seems to work well enough.
Our town requires visible numbers and everyone has them. Ours are highly reflective and there is a street light on our property.
There are reflective stick on numbers on the mailbox. There are no curbs. It’s the same as most houses in this area, some have no visible number at all. We can be easily found, but there are several houses around here where the number ordering wouldn’t appear to make sense because of shared driveways that look like side roads.
All houses in my town now have reflective numbers on posts at the ends of their driveway. This was a part of a big effort in 2011 to rename duplicate streets at the request of the fire department.
Multiple streets had the same name…how dumb is that? Not as bad as a nearby city that did the whole renaming thing too - they had several cases of there being up to three (!!!) streets with the same name within city limits.
But anyway, now that many streets have been renamed (or just named: ours didn’t have an official name but when by the highway we’re looped off of) there are fairly steep fines for not having your number visible from the road.
I’m pretty sure that the town in which my parents live requires them, so that emergency services can find the house. So they have numbers on the garage wall and the mailbox (on both sides).
If I leave the porch light on, yes, but this town is so small that everybody knows everybody so if I said my address, the emergency services would almost certainly know exactly which house (and who lives there, and what our jobs are, and what cars we drive, and whether or not we go to church…).
Same here. Private road to dirt road to cul de sac. But we do show up on GPS!!
I’m willing to let private residence owners do what they like about this (as long as I’m not the one getting frustrated by not being able to find the place). But it’s inexcusable for commercial businesses to not have their addresses conspicuously posted. I think the Post Office should enforce that by refusing to deliver mail to any commercial business that doesn’t have its address well-marked.
It’s difficult to find the condo complex at night. Side street, street name half-hidden by a tree (god forbid we trim back the tree), and no lights (god forbid we have lights that illuminate more than a couple of candles).
Don’t get me started on the issues around street lights around here. It makes me crazy that no one puts street names on half the streets, and there are ***no ***bright streetlights. Because when it’s dark from 4 pm until 7am the next day, obviously no one is out driving.
eyeroll
I live in a high rise apartment building on a major north/south street in Chicago. It’s impossible to miss the numbering
I’m Mr. Archaic, but I would think these days if you called for emergency services, they would know within about 4 inches of where you were.
That being said, I have to admit until a year or so ago, FedEx couldn’t find our house. :rolleyes:
