[PLUG-TALK] For Portland natives

[Paul Heinlein]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 15:23:53 -0700 (PDT)
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>
>> I'm curious why businesses southwest of Portland frequently have
>> Portland as their city. There's a company in Tigard with a Portland
>> address and I've seen others in Milwaukie and similar cities with
>> Portland addresses.
>
> Maps used by the post office do not always conform to maps drawn by
> political entities.

The greater St. Louis, MO area has, for its size, a very large number 
of suburbs. I lived in two of them, Clayton and Maplewood, in the late 
80s. The official request from the postal service was that we use "St 
Louis MO XXXXX" as our address. In other words, we were specifically 
asked not to use the name of our municipality but "St Louis" plus our 
local ZIP code.

I've never seen such a request for Portland, but to find certain 
postal subdistricts have that policy wouldn't surprise me.

-- 
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
45.38° N, 122.59° W