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I wonder how many of those there are in the US.

I used to work on postal address recognition software and I don't recall that we had any capability for recognizing strings of digits that contained fractions.

It was a long time ago now, but it seems like something I would have remembered.

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I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems.

I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2".

Worked surprisingly well. One of the advantages of having deliveries still carried out by actual people where the address apparently doesn't have to be an exact match.

Yes, I suppose as long as the street name is recognized it will usually go to the right carrier, at least for fairly short streets.

They're not uncommon at all. Surprised to see people in the comments here surprised to learn about them. Might be uncommon in other countries but it's pretty normal in the US.

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