To think it’s not that unusual to have no door number?

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My house has a name, no number. I frequently have the issue where people get rude over it, especially through Facebook marketplace and Olio etc.

I give the full address, they ask for the number, I clarify the house has a name: ok at this point.

Then then frequently persist and get rude. ‘I need the actual door number’, ‘um, just give me the number’, ‘look at your neighbours house, your number will be the one after that!’ (No houses have a number on this thread road), ‘oh that’s nice you have a name for it, but what’s the number’, ‘yeah, people think it looks smart but what’s the number’m the post office use’

Just now I’ve had ‘I’m not coming unless I get the number’. For a free item 😂

Is it that damn hard to get that not all houses have numbers??? Or is it the classic Aibu attitude of people, basically not getting that not everyone lives in exactly the same world?

Obviously more houses have numbers than not, but it’d have thought the average adult is aware that not every house has? I have an otherwise normal road in a city, only a handful of houses for the postcode so not that hard to find. Google maps etc are exactly accurate in pinpointing the house

OP you’re great and everyone who has a house number is a twat. It’s official I think.

To those who say hardly any houses in London are unnumbered, they obviously don’t live here or go around with their eyes closed. There are scads of high-rise council blocks called something-or-other house/tower/mansions, and while the flats are of course numbered, it’s anyone’s guess where on the estate something-or-other house/tower/mansions might be. Sometimes the blocks are named in google maps, sometimes not.
Another thing about London, especially central London, while almost every house/shop has a number, a heck of a lot don’t have it displayed. Walking around Soho hardly any shops carry numbers. Flats above them can actually carry addresses from different streets, depending on some layout from before a redevelopment.
I do miss Taiwan where every building is numbered and the number must be displayed outside at the front on a metal plate. However, Britain is far from uniquely bad here. It is almost impossible to locate a house from its number in Japan—I was told it’s because they are numbered in the order they were built. Every AirBnB I’ve ever stayed in in Japan, someone had to meet me at a street junction and guide me to the actual house. It’s almost impossible otherwise.