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I work in Boston MA which has this problem since it annexed a couple different other munis and didn't change the street names, so there are 2 different twin addresses to my work address, not a big deal except for the fact that for some bizarre reason google maps, which allows you save various addresses, doesn't save the zip code so when ever I'd get direction from work it would just pick whichever one is closest to the destination and give me directions from there.


That's a clever optimization that is. They are providing you with the shortest route, thus improving your user experience, isn't it great?


At my last job in Brighton, there were no less than four different address clones for our office in different "cities". One with the same zip code!!

Thank goodness our shippers were on point and remembered which one we were.




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