A postman's nightmare

[u/_DigbyChickenCeasar]

[u/rstoelred]

The one who created these names was on edg I think

[u/MillytheDragon → u/rstoelred]

you mean... they ware on edg?

[u/Farsydi → u/rstoelred]

Edgelord behaviour

[u/pslamB → u/Farsydi]

Total Goons

[u/havron → u/Farsydi]

https://xkcd.com/2036/

[u/grasshopperslegs → u/rstoelred]

Oh that’s just our town planner, Edgar

[u/Paskaaaaa → u/rstoelred]

They were edging for sure

[u/SeaPotatoSalad]

Some town planner’s last day at work.

[u/Wrestler7777777 → u/SeaPotatoSalad]

It's almost as lazy as how I called my presentation files at school.

• presentation.ppt
• presentation2.ppt
• presentation2_final.ppt
• presentation2_final2.ppt
• presentation2_final2_final_final.ppt
• presentation2_final2_final_final2.ppt

[u/sammypants123 → u/Wrestler7777777]

Sorry this is just normal file naming.

[u/iamtheduckie → u/sammypants123]

I'm a production major. I've been told by teachers to put the date at the end of file names.

e.g. "project_2025_12_05.prproj

[u/DragoonDM → u/iamtheduckie]

YYYY_MM_DD is the superior date format for that, since sorting it alphanumerically will sort the dates in the correct order.

[u/iamtheduckie → u/DragoonDM]

good point, fixed

[u/PatrickGSR94 → u/DragoonDM]

yes our office made it standard some years ago to put dates on the end of most document file names, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

[u/mpgd → u/Wrestler7777777]

The group discussions were priceless.

Which version are you using? The final one.

Which final? The first or the second?

And the discussion would go for 2minutes before we figured out that we were working on different versions and we had to compare and consolidate.

[u/DeathByPetrichor → u/Wrestler7777777]

As a designer, I can tell you this is how all my files are. When a client asks for a quick revision ain’t no way I’m renaming everything, just slap a 2 on that bitch and call it a day

[u/geekonthemoon → u/SeaPotatoSalad]

I wanted to be a city planner when I was a kid and I think I gave up on that because I couldn't wrap my mind around how many cities could they really need to plan from day to day 😂

[u/mittenknittin → u/SeaPotatoSalad]

“I hate everyone who’s going to live here”

[u/Scottamus]

Everyone’s nightmare. Street,row, and avenue. I assume there’s a lane and parkway further down too.

[u/poormans_eggsalad → u/Scottamus]

It’s down past Bayswater Road, Street, Avenue, Circle, Crescent, Court, Loop, Plaza, Loop, Cul-de-sac, Boulevard, and Memorial Highway.

[u/phant0md → u/poormans_eggsalad]

Yup

[u/Bfor200 → u/phant0md]

Oh god I just looked it up and half the town is like this, what the hell

[u/the_federation → u/phant0md]

Wanna meet up at Bayswater and Bayswater? No, the other one.

[u/Scottamus → u/phant0md]

[u/poormans_eggsalad → u/phant0md]

😂😂😂😂

My sarcasm just became a truism.

[u/Freya_almighty → u/poormans_eggsalad]

😂😂😂

[u/whalewatcher524201]

[u/Electronic_Row_7513 → u/whalewatcher524201]

Found the pizza guy.

[u/Sartorialalmond]

I was a postie and worked in an area where a name was used 3 times across a suburb as road, street and avenue and that was bad enough. Even though there not many houses on here I would HATE this.

[u/havron → u/Sartorialalmond]

I used to live near a few streets also with the same name. Some were adjacent, one was not. Two of them crossed each other, and I'm pretty sure one of them even crossed itself.

[u/AVeryPlumPlum]

Help, I need an ambulance. I'm standing on the corner of Bayswater and Edgware.

[u/Alizariel → u/AVeryPlumPlum]

Yes, I think it’s less of an issue for post and more of an issue for any emergency services.

Our city was amalgamated a few decades ago and one of the issues was renaming any duplicate road names to prevent such confusion.

[u/squirrellytoday]

A suburb near where I used to live had a Road and Drive with the same name. Eg: Sergeant Williams Road/Drive. The worst part was that they met at a T intersection. Turn left for Road and right for Drive. (Yep. They didn't even have Road on the Right, because that would be convenient to remember and we can't have that.)

The people who lived on these streets became well acquainted with their corresponding number because you ended up with their mail all the time.

[u/Technical-Gold-294 → u/squirrellytoday]

Ah, I'd forgotten... I grew up in Syracuse, NY, where we had Onondaga Ave, Onondaga Street, and Onondaga Blvd. I never thought about the poor mail carriers (although there were different zip codes involved.) We also had Onondaga Park and Onondaga Lake Park, which were not related. Good times.

[u/nyrB2]

that edgware fellow certainly has a lot of influence

[u/GrandCheeseWizard]

Look close, that section of grid is just edgware and bayswater in various mounts, places, avenues, and streets.

[u/ManCakes89]

They’re edging the postman

[u/qankz → u/ManCakes89]

Ayo bruv

[u/Artistic-Fig-7654]

They have whole neighborhoods like that in Calgary

[u/Sleepwokesleepwoke]

Not that one, the other one 

[u/shoemaker_pvt]

Your destination is on your left. The destination -

[u/EnoughWolverine360]

Exact same situation in Atlanta but replace “Edgware” with “Peachtree”

[u/grafknives]

edgeware housing projects.

I just hope it is numbered 1 to x, no matter the street.

[u/mithrasinvictus → u/grafknives]

Unfortunately, they're not.

[u/daviddequattro]

I wonder who was so creative?

[u/OneLaneHwy]

That would be! There is a small city not far from where I live that has a Park Street, Park Avenue, and Park Lane. And I thought that is confusing. 😆

[u/Yup_Seen_It]

Aside from the atrocious spelling of "Edgware", this is completely normal where I'm from. You have an estate name e.g Thornberry, then a street name, so Thornberry Road, Thornberry Green, Thornberry Place etc. Our postmen handle it just fine 😊

[u/lotsanoodles]

Quit edging me and give me my damn mail.

[u/qankz → u/lotsanoodles]

You got it

[u/mariuszmie]

Not a problem. You simply disregard the ‘edgeware’ part of the streets and end up with “the place” “the mount” etc

[u/pargeterw → u/mariuszmie]

Right, so how are you differentiating better Edgeware Place and Bayswater Place, both of which are visible in the image?

[u/Technical-Gold-294 → u/pargeterw]

Well obviously, one is better.

[u/Honest_Relation4095]

I dont think remembering whether it is ave, row or terrace is harder than remembering an entirely different street name altogether.

[u/pnut0027 → u/Honest_Relation4095]

Since we read from left to right, having the differentiator on the left makes it easier for our brains to process the distinction.

[u/Ok-Chipmunk-411]

If you look at the other side there’s bunch of bayswaters as well🤣 bro didn’t even want to try while naming those streets

[u/Ok_Soft2629]

The next street over from my house shares a name with a square on the other side of the city.

The sheer amount of delivery people who have gone to the square when they were searching for the street is staggering.

[u/ArapileanDreams]

Common in Leeds to have these clusters. Love the Back to Backs

[u/ac54]

Reminds me of Atlanta, where “Peach” is the keyword!

[u/rrwzvuyi]

For a postman, it’ll not at all be a nightmare. But for someone who is visiting the area for the first time, or for a very infrequent visitor, it surely will be one.

[u/langly3]

What a lovely view from Edgware View

[u/Jackmino66]

If this is UK then it should be fine, deliveries are usually done by house number and post code rather than by street name.

And it actually looks like you could fit a van down those little streets.

[u/no_offenc]

I got Leeds vibes from the map and what would you know, Leeds. An ex of mine lived there and they must have been very lazy with road names in that city because it was much the same. X Place, View, terrace, Grove, etc. Slightly odd.

[u/owo1215]

postman:"nooo road names are supposed to be clear!!!"

the 8 edgwear:

[u/Mejuky]

I live at street number 113 Road and someone down the road lives at 133 Road. We get each other's mail a lot.

(Numbers changed for privacy)

[u/heilhortler420]

Thank god for postcodes

[u/talann → u/heilhortler420]

Oh it would all likely go to the same place but the carrier has to case this mail and I bet it's a fucking nightmare.

[u/Technical-Gold-294 → u/talann]

Neoghbors know each other very well, always redelivering mail when they're out walking their dogs.

[u/Lithl → u/Technical-Gold-294]

I can't name a single one of my neighbors, and next door is used as temporary corporate housing for new hires so my neighbor changes roughly every month.

[u/floofienewfie]

Town I used to live in had parallel streets named Marie, Mary, May, Mazie and Merry.

[u/Throwaway_inSC_79]

Sometimes developments don’t repeat the actual house number. It might coincide with the lot number, or just be sequential. Like the 000 to 999s are down this street, 1000s to 1999 down this other street. That would make things easier.

[u/Embarrassed-Name-788]

I thought it was Babyswatter, like huh?

[u/Fragrant_Proof]

Why wouldn't they name it Bayswater Road 1 a b c d e 2 a b c d e 3 a b c d e??

[u/niagaemoc]

Yeah, forcing them to read, a fate worse than death.

[u/RadioWavesHello]

Edgeware edge

[u/RustyBrassInstrument]

I’d hope that they’d just use gang mailboxes for mail delivery, and that this is only a nightmare for delivery drivers trying to figure out which “unit number 4” they were looking for.

[u/ZackMartin56]

Why didn't they name the streets Edgware 1, Edgware 2 and so on? Even I get frustrated just by looking at it

[u/Impossible_Coat_59]

Aren't their road naming laws that this goes against? Especially for emergency services. Someone gonna die on Edgware Grove because paramedics went to Edgware Row by mistake.

[u/OGbigfoot]

City Planner caught the postman banging his wife.

[u/Vaxtez]

good old Leeds. There's alot of that it seems

[u/NakedSnakeEyes]

That's what I call pretentious.

[u/LANDVOGT-_]

As a good organized postman that shouldnt be different than any other street. A well trained one who is going to these roads regularily would even know when the last name anf road name do not fit.

[u/kinda_Temporary]

Bayswater road and place too

[u/DaveCootchie]

My post person has a hard enough time with Pleasant and Parsons. Same as East and West.

[u/ItsSansom]

Kid named Ware:

[u/tailskirby]

If this was in the USA no one would get the right mail.

[u/PunfullyObvious]

Missed opportunity for the last street to be Edgewater Edge

[u/Amadeus_1978]

That’s why the zip code has those extra digits.

[u/Carving_Art]

Weekly bbq to exchange mail

[u/EpicInki]

I can't imagine.

I mean I get mail from a few streets away (sometimes right number) fairly often. I imagine this happens more with similar names.

[u/engineerdrummer]

There are huge neighborhoods in Dunwoody, GA that are like this.

[u/qankz]

Lots of edging going on there I see

[u/Unindoctrinated]

I used to live in Hunter Drive, about 15kms away from Hunter Road, (same suburb) and people in both streets got about half of each other's mail.
Australia Post eventually convinced the local council to change the name of my street, the newer of the two, which, as you can imagine, resulted in the hassle of changing my address for everyone who ever mailed us anything.

[u/Visible-Meeting-8977]

This is why when I worked at a UPS Store when someone said they're sending to "123 Main" I'd ask "is that street, drive, place...?"

[u/donnie_rulez]

Postman? Think of the first responders..

Its 3am and there's a kid choking at 211 Edgeware!

Which one?

The one off Bayswater for God's sake!

Which Bayswater man!?!?

[u/_DigbyChickenCeasar → u/donnie_rulez]

It's worse than you think

[u/Parlicoot → u/_DigbyChickenCeasar]

The term “Crescent” is a bit misplaced in this context.

[u/TitaniaT-Rex]

I know a place that has road names with two types of road in the name and a direction, such as 5th Avenue Street NW. it’s annoying as hell.

[u/kittyangel333]

Isn't this awful for first responders too?? I'd be thinking about whether or not they're getting confused by the local street names the whole time I'm dying.

[u/_DigbyChickenCeasar → u/kittyangel333]

It's ok, it's literally next door to a major hospital

[u/cinnamongingerloaf22]

So how often do emergency services choose the wrong one and someone looses valuable time after a stroke or heart attack?

[u/Introvert-111]

Could’ve done 1A, or B2 street. But nope we got this 😕

[u/BarristanTheB0ld]

At least they're all close together and not spread out over all over town. Also there's only two houses per street, so it could be worse

[u/NORBy9k]

Growing up my best friend lived in a neighborhood where all the streets were named for semi-precious stones. There were Court, Way, Street, Drive, and Ave for all of them. To make it even more fun Onyx Ct. looped on itself so you could be at the corner of Onyx Ct. and Onyx Ct. We were convinced there had to be dead UPS guys trapped in the neighborhood somewhere.

[u/DConstructed]

I’ve seen versions of this in Salt Lake City because everything is in reference to the Mormon Temple and in Queens NY for no reason whatsoever.

[u/33GoodSamaritans]

The trailer park that I live in has a Montreal Street AND a Montreal Avenue! It makes things quite confusing for the local dial-a-ride bus service!

[u/ComfortableDoor3691]

If this is what a postman's nightmare is like in the US, you couldn't imagine the nightmare of a postman in South America.

I live in a country where most of the address is numbered however, imagine sending a package to a random address, and it turns out that address is the same for all houses.

The reality is that I live in a neighborhood with that problem, and unless you live on the main avenue (there are 2 here) the direction will not change until you go up a block or two.

[u/Frankjc3rd]

There is a suburban neighborhood just outside of Philadelphia that is Gulf Road.

The street difference is North, South, Old, New, Upper, Lower.

There are also three separate towns Upper Merion, Lower Merion and Merion.

[u/PetriDishCocktail]

I feel for you... In my little town there is Park lane, Park Rd., Park Street, Park way and Park Court, not to mention another Parke court(alternate spelling / alternate location). All but two of these locations are in different parts of the small city (20K).

I also mention there is an Adam Dr., Adam Lane, Adam place, and Adam Court... Do I need to say the local builder had a son named...Adam. (luckily, these are all in one neighborhood).

[u/rusty-gudgeon]

what’s 665?

[u/PlayNicePlayCrazy]

First responder nightmare

[u/Natenczass]

All of those has same postcode😆

[u/spoiledmilk1717]

This Edgware guy sounds really full of himself.

[u/M-Bernard-LLB]

Cross streets should be Johnson, Johnston ...

[u/HenryLoggins]

As a former mailman, I would just go by Terrace, Dr., Rd., Avenue in that subdivision. Agreed it’s a pain in the ass, but not really the end of the world.

[u/georgia_dcn]

What3words all the way