Ivory Coast has a new postal . It uses addresses that are three words. For the first , everyone in the country can get mail at their . Before now, people used post office boxes. The of Ivory Coast's post office said: "We have 150,000 PO boxes for a of nearly 24 million. That means a postal address is a ….We have to make postal available to ."
The postal system uses the what3words.com -mapping system. It divides the into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares, each with a 3-word address. The software uses to pinpoint a . The 22 numbers from these coordinates are changed into three to remember words. These replace addresses. A what3words spokesperson said addressing slows down growth and development and can cost .
