SteveB wrote:
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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ELL wrote:

Which is better.....white numbers on black background, or black numbers
on
white background?

Thanks!



Seems strange that no one mentioned that numbers on the curb are useless.
Emergency people aren't looking at the curb, and any numbers will be
dirty, covered up, or cars parked where you can't read them. Painting
numbers on the curb is a scam. If you want people to find your address,
put the number on a clear spot on the front of your house, or nail them on
a tree, a fence, a mailbox, but make sure that they are about at eye
level.


Huh? Just because they don't use them where you are doesn't mean they are
useless. What's useless is when the numbers are covered in ivy, or one or
two of them have fallen off, or they are brown numbers on a brown wall, or
.... well, you get the idea.

I have seen many a house where it is a time consuming hunt to find the house
numbers.

And some homeowners take delight in making them hard to see.

Steve



Well they may not be useless to real estate agents
and crooks, but the painters promote them as
valuable for emergency workers. Emergency
workers have maps that will show them that it is
the 4th house from the corner on the southside, so
one doesn't have to look for numbers. Probably
the most use place for the numbers would be in
rural areas but then they probably don't have a
curbs to put the numbers on.

What gets me is how many business have not numbers
showing on their buildings. Often in looking for
an unfamiliar business address, I pas dozens of
building with none indicating a number.
Incredibly dumb.