parcel addressed "a farm, situated up a long driveway with cows, opposite a pub or thereabouts"
A parcel sent to a couple in New Zealand addressed only with “a farm, situated up a long driveway with cows, opposite a pub or thereabouts” has reached its rightful owners.
The letter was initially received by a service centre in the rural village of Cust in the South Island of New Zealand, located between Oxford and Rangiora. The centre has a post centre attached to it that services Cust’s 450 residents.
Manager of the Cust service centre, Tammie McGrath, said it was custom to return mail that was not properly addressed to the sender. But she decided to attempt to find the cow-owning recipients of the parcel, posting an image of the package to Facebook. The only other clue on the parcel was that it was for ‘Kay and Philip’.
“I could tell it had been written by an older person and I just thought, well, I’ll hang onto it for a couple of days before I send it back and see if I can find who it belongs to,” McGrath told Guardian Australia.
“A couple of hours after I posted it on Facebook, a man came in and said, ‘I think we own this parcel’. He gave me his details and said his name was Philip, and that while he didn’t live across from a pub, he lived down the road from one. He also showed me a card with a picture of his property on it, which showed a field with cows on it. He isn’t actually on Facebook, but people who know him who are on Facebook showed the post to him.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/17/parcel-addressed-to-new-zealand-farm-up-a-long-driveway-near-pub-finds-its-way
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if an address was listed as rural route or a post office box I had to get directions someone could follow in the event next-of-kin notification was necessary - some of those descriptions / directions were very interesting indeed......many times when I gave them an odd look they would say: TRUST ME, this will get them there 
