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"Wikipedia has a photo of a parcel where a Russian/Cyrillic address was displayed on a computer with the wrong character encoding, and transcribed from that. Reportedly a russian postal worker was able to reverse the mapping and deliver the parcel."

The linked URL doesn't work anymore but thanks to Archive.org and reverse image search in Google I managed to find it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130909052627/http://en.wikiped...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/f/fa/Letter_t...




That is one dedicated postal worker.




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