That letter still hasn't found what it's looking for.
There is a history here of ridiculous things getting delivered so if that had made it to Ireland I'd say the postie would have done the business.
There was a lad a few years back that sent increasingly obscure addresses to see what would get delivered and documented it for fun. He called it "Me V's An Post".
One included a flippin' jigsaw for the address (which was delivered). Here are some more details on his escapades.
Edit: Here's the original blog. Looks like he was still playing games in 2020.
Here's another one that did make it's way to the intended recipient:
I was at a festival, a couple of years ago. Someone sent a letter, with a name, a tent colour, and a GPS location. Royal Mail (uk) delivered it the next day.
Impressive. That's a good one.
Someone sent my mother a letter from Australia to the USA with only my mother's first name, the state, and the city marked
Luckily my mother has an extremely unique first name so our postman saw the letter attached to the "unknown letter wall", went "oh I know that name"and brought it to mother.
I live in Ireland, and An Post really delivers. Hell, we still have entire neighbourhoods where houses have names instead of numbers (officially, they have also numbers, but they are not displayed). But have anything shipped via UPS, and you'll be lucky to have it delivered to a random address in your town...
My favourite story is when a Russian sent their address to someone in Europe (french?) and the character encoding fucked up so the address was fucked. And yet someone at the post figured it out and successfully delivered the mail.
I can find the video from where I learned it if anyone is interested. Right now I'm too tired.
If only he was Santa...
Wait.. he isn't?
