Using the Kuwait Finder Number
For a while now, perhaps a couple of years or more, every unit in Kuwait whether residential or commercial, even cinemas, has a little plaque by its door from the Public Authority of Civil Information (PACI) alongside a long unique number. I was baffled at first but then was told that the number is an address that can be used to find wherever place you want to head to in Kuwait electronically. I thought it was a marvellous idea especially in Kuwait where we do not have Zip codes and the postal system is particularly non-existent, but I never did get to know how to use that system whatever it was until the day when my husband ordered some lunch from a popular local doner place called Slice. On the packaging of the doner, you could find the words “Kuwait Finder” and the number next to the logo of PACI!
How interesting! I didn’t know people were giving out the number as an address, I’ve never come across anyone who did that before. Frankly even if I knew what my address number was I would still not know how to use it, but I figured there must be an app related to it and so I went to the Apple store and searched for “Kuwait Finder” et voila! There it was! I installed it at once.
Using the app finder you could search for addresses or simply enter the number they call “PACI Number” and you would get all the information related to it plus get directions on how to reach there and the shortest route information! That is quite awesome! Reminds me of the Kuwait Municipality application on their website that I’ve used hundreds of times to locate different address, only now its an app on a smart phone and you use a number for search! Very convenient and fast.
I have to say I’m going to give people my PACI number instead of my address from now on. I also am going to be asking people for their PACI numbers instead of their addresses and it would be a great help for businesses to start acknowledging their PACI numbers like Slice did and have it printed out alongside -or instead- of their physical address on product packaging or on social media platforms. Just enter a number into an app and you are there, as easy as one two three and maybe in the future if we are ordering something online or via the phone, all we have to do is give out that number and we are done!
In case you are still wondering what is the PACI number, it is literally found everywhere on a little white sign outside of any place with an address. I once came across a shop that had painted over the sign with the same colour as the shop’s background so you might want to look closer if you cannot find the number you are looking for. I am going to be recoding my own number and using it from now on. Do you know your PACI number? Have you tried it before? And why not?
