Digital addresses in Japan
by editors@theworld.org (Patti Daniels) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6XQND)
Japan is about a week into a new postal program that assigns a digital code to individuals that can stand in for physical addresses. The program is designed to do away with errors in labeling or addressing packages. Host Carolyn Beeler explains that, so far, the seven-digit code can only be used for package delivery.