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UPCS

A universal addressing system that turns any point on Earth into a short, shareable code — for the billions of people and places that have no usable street address.

The problem

Traditional addressing fails across large parts of the world. Billions of people live somewhere with no formal address at all, which makes deliveries unreliable, emergency response slow and basic navigation guesswork. Even where addresses do exist they are rarely precise enough: a street address gets a driver to the building, not to the right entrance, loading bay or parking space. Meanwhile e-commerce checkouts collect addresses as free text and then absorb the cost of every failed delivery and every phone call to find the door.

The approach

A country-scoped code generated from latitude and longitude, resolving to roughly a three-metre square, that can be spoken, texted or stored against an order like any other field. The map interface handles the human side — find your spot, take the code, share it. A REST API with SDKs handles the machine side, so the code can live in a checkout field, a navigation system or a field team's dispatch tool rather than only on a website. The point is not a clever encoding; it is that the same code works for a family sharing a picnic spot and for a logistics operation coordinating thousands of visits a day.

Who built it

UPCS was founded and built by Abdul Rehman Sandhu, a qualified accountant and technology advisor working with businesses globally. The same diagnostic approach behind this venture is the one applied in client engagements.