I went to college with a guy who had family in Austria. When he would write letters to his family members back in Austria (this was long before Email), he would address the envelope with name, street, city, Austria, and then add (in letters as large as the envelope would contain) EUROPE. He swore to G-d that his letters never got there without the reference to Europe on the envelope, and he assumed that his early letters were in a dead-letter office somewhere in Australia.
Sh'biqua: What be dis country Shantey?
Shantey: "Why dat be a lettah going to Australia, the land of bloomin onions n' sheet like down at dat rezrant.
Sh'biqua: Mmmmhmmm, you know dat's right! Da cracka dat wrote this jus' dunno how to spell. (laughter: Kee kee kee!)
Shantey: Yeah dem crackas sho be stupid! Kee kee kee!