Netizens were amazed recently by how Thailand Post, the government postal service with the less-than-stellar reputation, was able to locate the recipient of a parcel only by the house number and postal code. Oh, and the word “Thailand.”
Karn Burananatt ordered some products from Wish, a Chinese app that sells low-priced goods similar to Alibaba and Aliexpress.
But when the parcel arrived at his home, Karn was surprised to find see his address. Instead of district and road names, it was filled with question marks, probably as a result of the Chinese company’s computer not supporting Thai language. He shared a snapshot of the bunk address on Facebook on Saturday. It quickly went viral.
“The app has my address in Thai and English. In this case, the sender obviously tried to use the Thai text,” Karn replied to his viral post on Facebook.
Speaking to Coconuts, Karn assumed that he was just lucky that no one shares the same house number as him in his postal code, which is in Rangsit, a Bangkok suburb.
“They probably tracked it down from the postal code and then the house number. I may be lucky that my house number is not the same as anyone else, or maybe the local post office knows where my house is,” Karn said.
While many are praising Thailand Post today for getting things right this time, the organization is best known for folding, breaking, throwing and totally losing mail. Others were perplexed by how the Chinese seller could ship the parcel like that.
“I feel lucky that Thailand Post paid attention to details this time,” Karn said.
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