A tie on Main Street, a rout at the PO Box
Mailwoman ships two address parsers in the same box.
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Mailwoman's design — the staged pipeline, the Knowledge Ladder, schemas, and how the pieces compose.
View All TagsMatch where it is rather than how it's spelled
Here are two addresses. Tell me if they're the same place.
The model said P.O. Box all along. We weren't listening.
Last night our release check failed twice before it passed, and both failures had the
Four numbers tried to lie to us in 24 hours. We shipped anyway.
Yesterday we wrote about a lookup table that scored a perfect 100 and nearly talked us
A lookup table scored 100%. We shipped the model anyway.
This morning we published a post that ended with a tidy rule: some address tags don't
Which way does a postcode point?
We injected a postcode's country signal straight into the model, and German addresses jumped thirty-five points. Then three retrains taught us the same anchor can't help an address written in the other order, because it never learned to find the city. It learned which way to look.
The map runs out before the country does
We taught a resolver to drop a postcode into the city polygon that contains it. Japan has no city polygons, so we resolved it another way and hit 94%. Then Korea let us nail the coordinate every time and refused to give up the name — and the gazetteer is the reason.
Does a postcode know what country it's in?
We thought a postcode was a strong enough signal to delete a configuration flag. Then we measured it. A five-digit code pins its own country less than half the time — and that number talked us out of writing the code we were about to write.