So who says that this is a waste of time? A person learns something new each day. That is very interesting about the postal numbers but do they also have physical house address'? If you wanted directions and didn't know the area how would that work? Do the police and fire departments have areas like that and know where everyone lives? Just curious 
Maybe some just count the curves on the road, or how many moose they saw? Actually you do not see the moose every day, but there are a number of them around. Dr. Arild Abrahamsen has neither a name nor a number on his clinic, and yet up to 50 people on a day will find their way. They come from all over Norway and other countries, even though he's never had an ad in a paper. I have met quite a number of people in the area who told me he saved their lives after other doctors had done all they could.
So I suppose the local police and fire departments have a way of finding their way around.
We don't have a street number either, but all the houses and farms in the community have their own names. It helps when my wife is along because we can often drive for an hour past farms and houses where she not only knows the names of the buildings, but also the people, grandparents, children, nephews and nieces.
Yes, we live in a different world. I once visited a factory manager in the Faeroe Islands. He excused himself that he had no money, because something unusual had happened during the night - someone had stolen their money. He showed me an empty box for cigars kept in an unlocked drawer which served as their safe. Somebody had ventured into that drawer during the night, but he assured me they did not have many people who would do a thing like that, so he was sure they would find the culprit within a few hours, and that he would have to return the money. In a society like that you learn to see how the face reveals a guilty conscience.
