From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!b-davis Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Missing street names Article-I.D.: utah-cs.1292 Posted: Fri Jan 14 12:00:45 1983 Received: Sat Jan 15 07:45:15 1983 References: ixlpc.198 In my neck of the woods the street numbers have reference to actual measurments taken from where the street begins. Because of this, all the telephone poles have street numbers (I don't know what the USPS would do with mail sent to them).