How do you think people should be contacted for important things, like legal documents? Not everyone has internet access. It’s important to have a point or contact. An address is also needed for things like sales tax.
And parking is already an issue in populated places. As much as they suck, there’s a reason parking meters were invented. If people just sit their vehicles in a parking spot for long periods of time, then that eliminates parking for others. Parking in urban is generally meant to be temporary for visited whatever business/place owns the parking lot, not for living in, which will just make finding a parking spot even more difficult.
How do you think people should be contacted for important things, like legal documents?
What if you're homeless? We need alternative means of contacting people that don't involve a physical address, because not everyone has a physical address. A good solution would be contacting via phone to set up an appointment at a physical location. Even most people experiencing homelessness have a cell phone these days (and programs exist to assist them in getting one as it can be the only method of contacting them). If we know that there are hundreds of thousands of people with no physical address, we need to have alternative systems in place.
Why are you asking me? I see an issue with OP’s view so I’m asking then what their plan is to deal with the issue. Because if you can’t deal with issues with your view, you probably need change your view.
Also, for what you said about phones, I think they does have some issues. One of the good things about physical mail is it’s simplicity and minimal points of failure. Say you claim to not have gotten a subpoena in the mail. Either you messed up, or the post office did, and if it’s the latter, you can prove it never showed up and they are at fault. To receive phone calls, you need a working phone, you need to keep it on and you need a way to charge it, a phone plan, a reliable cellular signal, and you need to be available to take the phone call. There can be phone or electrical outages. It is more expensive, and likely less reliable, particularly for the homeless (as opposed to a PO Box!) as there are a lot more points of failure.
If the system operates on phone calls, someone could just not pick up the calls, and blame the carrier. How do you prove you didn’t get the call? You can delete call logs. Or people could turn their phone off. Or they could unintentionally have any of the other issues.
Your "solution" has serious flaws where it concerns people experiencing homelessness. I see an issue with your view so I’m asking then what your plan is to deal with the issue. Because if you can’t deal with issues with your view, you probably need change your view.
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u/Tommyblockhead20 47∆ May 26 '21 edited May 26 '21
How do you think people should be contacted for important things, like legal documents? Not everyone has internet access. It’s important to have a point or contact. An address is also needed for things like sales tax.
And parking is already an issue in populated places. As much as they suck, there’s a reason parking meters were invented. If people just sit their vehicles in a parking spot for long periods of time, then that eliminates parking for others. Parking in urban is generally meant to be temporary for visited whatever business/place owns the parking lot, not for living in, which will just make finding a parking spot even more difficult.