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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2008-09-04 10:41 am

Are we behind or what?

I am working my way, with patience and ingenuity, through a mailing list file dumped out by our mail house, called Bad Addresses. Many of them are simple corrections - transposed digits in the street number, for example - or companies who get their mail at PO boxes instead of a street address. But two very large blocks turn out to be closed facilities. When I Googled on them, I discovered that the relevant buildings had been closed and sold by our erstwhile corporate parent. Boy, are we out of the loop.

[identity profile] jenwrites.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh boy.

[identity profile] hfcougar.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember being in a crew of people who researched bad address people using AlumniFinder (I had a former employer who felt it was worth it to shell out for this).

I am a great deal more worldly than some people I meet, and I wasn't sure quite how to explain to one frustrated coworker that Mr. Ben Dover residing at 69 High Street was unlikely to ever be found.