200 metros del Rostipollos........or something like that. That was part of my address when I was in Costa Rica. There was a restaurant called Rostipollos in Costa Rica and my host family's house was nearby. Basically if you had to take a taxi anywhere, you would have to give directions by landmarks and distance.The postal service in Costa Rica is now assigning numbers, street names, and postal codes to make the process of delivering mail much easier for the mail carriers. Often times mail is undeliverable because they can't figure out what the addresses mean.
"Officials have rolled out more than 430,000 streamlined addresses, mostly in urban areas. They hope to convert the entire country over the next two years if the government allocates about $1 million to finish the job.
Erecting street signs will take a lot longer and cost a bundle. Correos de Costa Rica is trying to persuade the private sector to help pay for that effort."
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Finally! When I was in San Jose, the address for the McDonald's was the McDonald's itself. No joke.
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