Addresses are supposed to be unique identifiers used to find a location. But things don't always work so smoothly for people who live on the two High Streets in Wallingford.
From delivery mix-ups to hassles ordering online, life is not always easy. Now some are demanding changes.
Anyone looking for Judy Giannettino’s home or the Voss family’s house might get confused. They each live at 40 High Street in Wallingford, with the same zip code. But there are two separate addresses.
Giannettino lives on High Street in the Yalesville section of Wallingford. Several miles away there’s another High Street in the town itself, where the Voss’s live and experience similar troubles, including trying to order a new TV online.
"It’s aggravating," Giannettino said.
On Monday, Giannettino put out donations for a veterans group to pick up.
You can guess where they showed up.
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"He’s like I’m here and I’m like I don’t have anything for you," Michele Voss said.
This one Giannettino can laugh off.
"So they’re going to try and come again Friday," Giannettino said.
But it’s been years of botched deliveries, mix-ups and even a missed medical appointment because of a lost plow crew.
"I had my chemo in the winter. And it had snowed. And the guy went over to, I said you know where Yalesville is? Sure? Oh yeah, yeah," Giannettino said.
That’s the problem.
"I enter in my address and they came back with a note saying they don’t recognize your address," Ted Voss said.
Now after years on confusion, the town is looking at a remedy. It’s studying changing the name of the street in Yalesville to High Road, which might finally clear things up for everyone.
"That’s the hope that it would help," Mrs. Voss said.
NBC Connecticut was told not everyone is in favor of the switch, including those who live on the street in Yalesville and whose house number does not appear on the other High Street.
They’re concerned about the time and cost of switching to a new address.
Right now police are surveying homeowners about the name change and will later report the results to the mayor.
