The road suffix does matter, sometimes. I grew up on (fake number but the street name is right) 555 Beverly Lane. Just around the corner from us was 555 Beverly Boulevard. Both houses were painted white brick, and were the only two white brick houses in the entire neighborhood. My parents met up with the other homeowners about once a week to exchange mail, because not even the regular postal carrier could get right who lived where half the time.
I don’t think they are block numbers, I think they were originally individual properties. I see places where there are several numbers next to each other. The larger areas were probably originally farms or something.
OTOH, some cities and towns are small enough you can simply omit “Street,” “Place” or “Road” from the end of the address, and it’ll still get through. Check with your local postmaster or postmistress to be sure.
I hate noncontiguous streets that have the same name. When I lived in New Philadelphia, Ohio, my wife and I wandered around for about 20 minutes looking for an address on a particular street. The street numbers just didn’t go that high. (This was before the days of Google Maps and Mapquest). Someone helpfully pointed out that the street continued on the other side of the river, half a mile away, with the numbers running uninterruptedly there, even though there was no bridge directly linking the two parts of the same-named street. :smack:
Which is what I said in my following post, where I specified that this happens in rural and former rural areas.
Posties are quite good about that sort of thing. I regularly get mail addressed to [fake number] 7e Avenue, 7e Rue, 7ème Avenue, Septième Avenue, 7th Avenue, Seventh Avenue, 7th Street, etc., etc. The fact that our postal codes only refer to one block (like your nine-digit zip codes) helps.
It sounds similar to addresses in Venice. Your address is simply the name of your sestiere (borough, more or less) and a sequential number that generally goes from one end of the borough to the opposite end, though not always, so: San Polo 1258. There are reference books and so forth to find the place you need (Google Maps has them too). In addition, all the streets and canals are named, so conceivably they could use street addresses, but they don’t.
Florence is good enough to have street number addresses, but with two different systems (“red” and “black” numbers) that I don’t remember how they work.
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I believe you mean “Numerical” order. “Chronological” refers to time. They’re not numbered in the order they were built, were they?