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Postal addresses - are they needed?

Postal addresses of our relatives / friends are invariably written down in a diary or book and updated every couple of years. I had not re-organised my address book since last 5 years and so I started doing it yesterday.

Took a diary of 2005 and started writing addresses one by one from my own, followed by Arun's, Ashok's, Arvind's etc etc. When I had written down about 30 addresses, suddenly it struck me - addresses, are they NEEDED at all? Why do I need Arun's or say, Athimber's address? I should know how to reach their house - thats one of the purposes of the addresses. And I know how to reach the houses of many relatives. I am not going to write any letters to them. So why would I need their postal addresses?

In the old address book, I had addresses of very distant "relatives" whom I have never met in my life! Even though I scored off these names, still I wondered - why do I have to write addresses?

I guess that only tel numbers, both landline and mobile, and email IDs if any, should do. Postal addresses are a waste of time.

rajappa
12:15 on 20-11-2007

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  1. UnknownNovember 20, 2007 at 1:29 PM

    We still do send invitations (for marriage, gruhapravesam etc). So atleast for that we would need the address. But yes, we can simply send a mail to them and get their address - to be sure we have the latest address.

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  2. SA NarayananNovember 21, 2007 at 6:45 PM

    நான் அடுத்த முறை எப்போது அழைப்பு அனுப்புவேன், எனக்கே தெரியாது. அதைத் தவிர, அட்ரஸ் மாற்றி எழுத ஆரம்பித்து 24 மணிக்குள்ளாகவே, இரண்டு திருத்தங்கள் / அடித்தல்கள் வந்துவிட்டன !

    ராஜப்பா

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