If you think :that's: dumb, check out the "Eircode" address System that Ireland's government spent an 8 figure sum on: http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/lost-and-fo...

Eircodes were created that way so that people wouldn't have to change their address at all. Which could be a politically difficult thing. Politicians choose the thing that made their life easier and stopped complaints.

Wow! —the insanity is contagious.