atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

It seems that much of the westernised world is wedded to a very old-fashioned addressing system for manually delivered mail. This is probably because when mail systems started, all you needed was the name of the addressee, and perhaps a milepost on a road - just to be quaintly archaic.
Yet all around us we see the development of 'peeling of the onion' style addressing. For instance the addressing of a planet in a solar system, the addressing of a PC within a network. Even the Russians use this addressing system. For someone who is new to a system, this 'peeling of the onion' approach is far easier to grasp.
Why do we stick with the old? Probably because Australia Post and its acolytes - or is it the other way around? - have invested heavily in electro-mechanical sorting equipment to support an obsolescent message delivery system. Strangely, urls have a convoluted mixture of the peeling approach and the old-fashioned. Why?
Brian - me sad? No. 
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