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Post: I like the addressing in Germany

I'm a simple emigrant and I like the addressing in Germany

8/5/2025, 8:58:06 AM

In Germany, usually each entrance door to an apartment building (St. Petersburg folks, this one’s for you: the main entrance) has its own unique address: street name and number. When I had just moved here, it was so amazing and funny to me. The feeling was something like “how could this be possible?”. Then I somehow just got used to it and didn’t pay much attention. And then I went home. Naturally, the first thing I did was order everything from Ozon and Wildberries, and the quest began. The pickup point is five minutes away, BUT in those buildings there are a hundred thousand pickup points. And the addresses in ALL of them look like this: Ulichnaya Street, house 358, structure 28, block 19, building 10, construction 6, North side, entrance 6, side-entrance 3, approach 1. And all, absolutely all the houses in the microdistrict are twins. And, let’s not forget, they are all stuffed with pickup points. Explain to me, urbanists, is it really that hard, just give each entrance door its own address? I understand that Russia’s population is almost twice as large as Germany’s, but there they have thirty-story buildings, and here most are five stories at most. That is, the number of entrance doors is surely comparable. And even if there are many more doors, why not simplify life and give a specific door a specific address? At a minimum, taxi drivers would surely thank you for such a gift. If anything, I haven’t forgotten about the residents’ surnames on mailboxes in Germany: I’m leaving these complaints for you! 🤭