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My wife bought herself a shotgun while in Anchorage and they gave her a google map picture of the village here and had her mark her house.

Is a good ol' ***? in order here or is this a new practice? It may be a way to help rural Alaskans who dont have a street adress?

Just wondering if this is wide spred, or what?
 
Is a good ol' ***? in order here or is this a new practice? It may be a way to help rural Alaskans who dont have a street adress?

Tough question, but trying not to go off topic, we had the "same" problem a couple of weeks ago getting a satellite dish at a remote deer hunting camp. The problem was not having an address.

I think big brother has nothing else better to do................
 
Back around '93-94 I visited my parents in Fairbanks. At the time they were living in a village along one if the major rivers. No street address. My Dad and I came across a shotgun that was too good for him to pass up. As my Dad was filling out the 4473 he explained to the nice clerk at Fred Meyer's that they didn't have an address. My Dad said he could explain the physical location of their residence though. The clerk said "Go ahead, people do it all the time". My Dad proceeded to write down "go north of the intersection from the school two blocks...."

I believe what your wife experienced is an updated equivalent of that.
 
Back around '93-94 I visited my parents in Fairbanks. At the time they were living in a village along one if the major rivers. No street address. My Dad and I came across a shotgun that was too good for him to pass up. As my Dad was filling out the 4473 he explained to the nice clerk at Fred Meyer's that they didn't have an address. My Dad said he could explain the physical location of their residence though. The clerk said "Go ahead, people do it all the time". My Dad proceeded to write down "go north of the intersection from the school two blocks...."

I believe what your wife experienced is an updated equivalent of that.

Sounds like my father's family back in western North Carolina. They're so country I can't tell you where they live, I have to explain it.
 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exlyo.mapmarker&hl=en_US Better then an address.
  1. Download and open Google Maps. Go to the Play Store (Android), search "Google Maps", and tap the Get/Install button next to the search result to download the app.
  2. Drop a pin where you want to get the latitude and longitude.......
  3. View the location's coordinates. ...
  4. Share the location if you like.

https://www.latlong.net type in your address. It finds me.

The "life360" app is used to track family members by cell phones. A pin can be dropped to mark work or home. I can see where my family is going while driving in real time also. Very cool app.
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Put the GPS location in "Google Earth" look at your house from a satellite photo.
No place to hide any more. :D
 
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Rural Route 3, Box 752, doesn't go a long way in locating a residence....

But, it used to be acceptable for a 4473, after all, a quick stop at the Post Office will still locate the house in question.
 
We are fortunate. We live in the Chattahoochee National Forest; however, almost all internet mapping services have no idea of where we live. UPS delivers to the local PO who lives the package (wrapped in plastic) on the power company's transformer at the bottom of the dirt road.
The major pain is buying ammunition online..
 
In New Jersey, New York, or California, I would maybe be concerned. But I wouldn’t worry so much about Alaska.
Our street address have to match on our permits and the 4473s we fill out, they used to allow PO boxes on the permit but not anymore.....or i think they did, I didn't start remembering my street address till i had to for my permits lol.

Honestly even if they didn't I don't think it would matter. DMV (here anyway) require a street address for vehicle registration, so your social and name already at least have a city and some kinda address tied to them.
 
For a number of years on the farm we lived on in Iowa our telephone was one of those hand crank wall mounted types with the mouth piece mounted on the phone and the earpiece was held to your ear. We didn't have a phone number, it was one long ring and two short rings.
 
For a number of years on the farm we lived on in Iowa our telephone was one of those hand crank wall mounted types with the mouth piece mounted on the phone and the earpiece was held to your ear. We didn't have a phone number, it was one long ring and two short rings.
The ol’ party line, which bears no relation to today’s party line...
 
Our address was just the name of our canyon until ~1990. The house number, assigned in the mid-'80s for "emergency services only" quietly became mandatory for postal use just a few years later.
 
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