My town has no house to house mail delivery, so everyone has to have a PO box.Anything mailed to the street address goes to the PO box.The Postmaster pretty much knows everyone,so the mail goes to the right person as pointed out by other small town residents.

The funny thing is, if I mail something to Kellogg,2 miles east of me, it gets routed through Spokane,Washington,70 miles to the west.It can sometimes take 4 or 5 days for a letter to make the trip.

The mail sorting machines can also become confused if you write out the full name of a state instead of the the 2 letter designation they are programmed to read.IE;Washington instead of WA, California instead of CA...etc.

rr