Amazing! New year card with a vague address was delivered safely!!

I found a website written where it was claimed that an address written something like 'To a man in a red hat, who is selling "Big Issue" near Starbucks' is good enough to deliver a new year card in Japan. I found it was a quite an amazing story as the Australian post is quite slack. No offence against them, but definitely they deliver mail without looking at the street names thoroughly at all. In fact, we receive a wrongly addressed letter at least once a month. Sometimes they are same street, but different numbers, other times they are on the same street but different suburbs, what's are worse are is when I cannot find any similarities...

I do not know how to deal with those letters, so I deliver them if they are nearby and bring them back to the post box if they are far away. I hope they are delivered properly at the second time because even if I only glance at the envelope, I can tell some of them are official letters and quite important. I am sure that our letters have also been also delivered somewhere else because my last medicare card did not arrive here even though the expiry date was passed.

I wonder if I am asking too much to read the address properly to deliver the mail to the right person and put them into the mail box instead of spread them on the ground.

http://ima.goo.ne.jp/column/article/535.html