Re: [Gnumed-devel] gmDemographics Question de vs au requirments

[Horst Herb]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:24, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Griffith and has postcode 2680 ? If you really do use the
> suburb name that officially why not just consider it the value
> to be put into the urb table ? Eg. urb Griffith, state NSW,
> postcode 2680 ? Does it matter what city Griffith is part of ?
> Or am I getting this whole suburb concept wrong ? What exactly
> does suburb stand for ? Is it more like a "county" in the US ?
>
> > now, I live in 2680 but I don't live in Griffith. How does the post
> > office handle this? Well we don't have a mail service to home at all so
> > it doesn't matter.
>
> How *would* they if it did matter ?

How? Australian bureaucrats go a long way in order to make things inefficient 
and unlogical. In fact, I came to the conclusion that the whole anglo-saxon 
cultural context is based on making access and comprehension of information 
as difficult as reasonably possible (as an instriument of maintaining social 
disparities)

Horst