They say that home is where the heart is, and that a house is not a home, and maybe Dorothy said it best when she clicked the heels of her ruby slippers three times and said “There’s no place like home”, her and Toto’s ticket out of Oz!

Home for you might be a farm in Kansas, or in a high rise overlooking the strip in Las Vegas, or a small inner city bungalow built in the 30s.

For you maybe home is a multi million dollar mansion with an ocean view, or a cottage somewhere on a pristine lake in the north woods, it could be a houseboat, a geodesic dome, a log cabin or a luxury apartment, but wherever it is, it most likely has an address, and if you are happy about your address and your home, and proud of it, you will want design and buy a custom address stamp.

Research tells us that the 10 most famous addresses in the world are as follows:

1. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC– Known as the White House.
2. 11 Wall Street New York, NY– This is home of the New York Stock Exchange. 
3. 350 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10118– This is where the Empire State Building stands.
4. 221 B Baker St, London, England– This is the address to the Sherlock Homes Museum
5. Tour Eiffel Champ de Mars, Paris– Where the Eiffel Tower stands.
6. 4059 Mt Lee Dr. Hollywood, CA 90068– This is the exact address where the Hollywood sign stands.
7. Buckingham Palace, London, England– Where the royal family lives.
8. Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island New York, NY 10004
9. Manager Square, Bethlehem, West Bank–Where the baby Jesus was born and laid in the manger.
10. 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney– This is the most popular place in Australia, the Opera House.

The history of addresses is pretty simple. Before house numbers, businesses used illustrated signs to show people where they were, for example, a dragon for an apothecary. However, when sending post people had to rely on describing the address as best they could. Over time, the need for house numbers became increasingly clear. In London, one of the first recorded instances of a street being numbered is Prescot Street in Goodman’s Fields in 1708. By the end of the century, the numbering of houses had become well established.

In any event, the mail must go out, and as the post office claims, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

And in one more reference, because there needs to be one more, signer Joe Cocker said it this way:

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain’t got time to take no fast train
Oh, the lonely days are gone
I’m coming home
My baby, she wrote me a letter

I don’t care how much I’ve got to spend
I’m gonna find my way back home again
Oh the lonely days are gone
I’m coming home
My baby, she wrote me a letter

She wrote me a letter
Said she couldn’t live without me no more
Listen to me, mister, can’t you see I’ve gotta
See my baby once more?

Wherever you live, we hope your baby wrote you a letter, and we hope also that she stamped it quite clearly with your correct address, and that it got to you in time! If you don’t have an address stamp yet, we suggest it’s an issue you address soon by visiting us at Rubber Stamp Champ!