Want Pride & Ownership of your Neighborhood through the USPS?

[CTroyMathis]

Send mail to yourself to test.

I can nearly guarantee that if you write something on the order of what is below, it will work - barring bad handwriting or some other rare quirk that kicks mail out of the Bar Code Sorter machines and into human hands to process and possibly fumble.

1. name
2. good and real street/building address
3. then one of these Dallas muni neighborhoods as an example of a test...
Oak Cliff, TX
Oak Lawn, TX
Pleasant Grove, TX
Lake Highlands, TX
Uptown Dallas, TX
North Dallas, TX
Mountain Creek, TX
Lakewood, TX
M Streets Dallas, TX
whatever, whatever

-add Dallas in some cases (or Fort Worth; or, wherever the city neighborhood is - if you feel it is more likely to represent...)

4. ZIP (preferably ZIP+4 to better facilitate automated mail processing.)

Once it leaves sorting and gets down to the mail carrier, you should be golden. They will be less likely to second-guess any of the processing that took place beforehand and they probably recognize addys and names anyhow.

Start a trend if it's what you want. It'll work!

[CTroyMathis]

Anyhow, this is actually not an uncommon practice across the US with old school nabes and annexed locales that have been incorporated by nearby cities. This testing instance is different in that we are starting from scratch... IE do people from the old Pleasant Grove consistently write that as their town/city address in Texas?

Furthermore, I know all or most online map services use "Dallas,TX" for all locations in Highland Park - even their Town Hall.

[noelamador]

yep, that's how we do it here in LA. I can use Mar Vista or LA. same goes for Marina Del Rey, Brentwood, Encino, Tarzana or any other neighborhood of LaLa Land.