Cellular Device as GPS

[rod]

You would knock on doors and ask where so and so lived. Most people did know their neighbors and could tell you.

I would run into those who would say "go ask old Joe---he has lived here for a 100 years and knows everybody". The trouble was old Joe was senile and couldn't remember what his dogs name was.

 

[Brownslave688]

When you get out in the country you can see strange things but inside towns is more normal. At least with 911 service many odd areas have been renumbered. I remember when you might have a dozen stops with nothing but RR 1.

We have an area that still isn't 911

 

[Geo926]

Another good tool to use is the mailman. That guy knows where every house and street is on your route.

 

[cosmo1]

And absolutely no one had their name on the mail box because "everybody knows them". My 1st RR bid was an area that involved 7 different rural routes and 2 small towns that people just addressed their stuff PO Box #. That one had me seriously thinking about leaving UPS-------especially when it came to after dark delivery.

Oh, come on. I had a rural route consisting of nine zip codes. Only one "town" had a named street and even then only one street was named. Everything else was PO boxes and RR numbers. I love it.

 

[mjjlohn]

Yeah I don't know about you guys but there's a million streets everywhere with irregular numbering and street ranges. Only with a phone can you know where/how before hand.

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

Oh, come on. I had a rural route consisting of nine zip codes. Only one "town" had a named street and even then only one street was named. Everything else was PO boxes and RR numbers. I love it.

Exactly how old are you.............

 

[mjjlohn]

Ps phones show the street names of streets with no signs or marking

 

[cosmo1]

Exactly how old are you.............

We didn't start to get standardized addresses until late 2001. And, my part of the state is very rural. My old center delivers and area about the size of Connecticut. My county is larger than Rhode Island.

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

We didn't start to get standardized addresses until late 2001. And, my part of the state is very rural. My old center delivers and area about the size of Connecticut. My county is larger than Rhode Island.

Soooooooooooooo your dodging the question , 90, 95?

 

[By The Book]

Oh, come on. I had a rural route consisting of nine zip codes. Only one "town" had a named street and even then only one street was named. Everything else was PO boxes and RR numbers. I love it.

The way po boxes jump around it is a good thing we didn't have Orion back then.

 

[livin the dream]

I just use google maps as an actual map. I don't see how that's so different from a paper map. it's the same map, but you can search addresses if you need to. I never use turn by turn

 

[By The Book]

I just use google maps as an actual map. I don't see how that's so different from a paper map. it's the same map, but you can search addresses if you need to. I never use turn by turn

Turn by turn is ok, but the wife doesn't like her.

 

[cosmo1]

Soooooooooooooo your dodging the question , 90, 95?

Not even close.

 

[sailfish]

I prefer to use (and for some reason quite enjoy using) paper maps. However, it's not always possible to have a map on hand covering every road you may have to deal with along the way.

That being said, I keep a load of printed maps with me when I drive. Many times I've come across a road I didn't know and that wasn't on one of my maps. In this instance I will look the road up on my Garmin ($0 per month, fully loaded with maps regardless of reception) and draw an addition or write it in on one of my maps, along with address ranges between intersections as I find them.

All my route maps I keep saved on my computer, so later on, I will go in and permanently edit the map with the new addition that I labeled or drew in, so it will always be there if I must reprint it.

Despite all this, when running Saturday air, I won't hesitate to GPS my way to every single stop (all ten of them), simply because I have the tool and I'm in a different area looking for a different road every single time and frankly don't really care to actually learn it.

 

[Foamer Pyle]

Paper maps are faster & give you the bigger picture of an area.

Maybe if your in a rural area without many streets. You could look at J8 on a map here and spend 3 minutes trying to find a street, the Google Map app gets you there in 5 seconds max.

 

[upschuck]

Oh, come on. I had a rural route consisting of nine zip codes. Only one "town" had a named street and even then only one street was named. Everything else was PO boxes and RR numbers. I love it.

I did one of those my 2nd day after thanksgiving. At 3pm ish, I called in and the sup said "there is no street names on them?" I brought all the RR's back. Got all the in town stuff done.

 

[burrheadd]

And absolutely no one had their name on the mail box because "everybody knows them". My 1st RR bid was an area that involved 7 different rural routes and 2 small towns that people just addressed their stuff PO Box #. That one had me seriously thinking about leaving UPS-------especially when it came to after dark delivery.

Just get it close they'll figure it out

 

[upschuck]

Ps phones show the street names of streets with no signs or marking

Ps phones?

 

[BSWALKS]

Maybe if your in a rural area without many streets. You could look at J8 on a map here and spend 3 minutes trying to find a street, the Google Map app gets you there in 5 seconds max.

Good for you. I'm in this game for the long haul. Maybe if you run fast enough you can come take stops from me.

 

[AKCoverMan]

Very unusual. I never heard of any place like that. I have seen oddballs with number on opposite side of street but not every address.

There's a street in a town I cover where some houses are numbered off the town numbering system and some houses Re numbered off the borough system(we have boroughs here instead of counties).

So imagine three lots side by side addressed
12501 East Main Street
715 West Main Street
12551 East Main Street

Get lots of NSNs when rookies run this.