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Google maps loves to confuse my house, "#X Y Ave", with a different house several miles away, "#X Y Ave South". It doesn't matter whether you enter the address

Google maps loves to confuse my house, "#X Y Ave", with a different house several miles away, "#X Y Ave South". It doesn't matter whether you enter the address correctly; Google will sometimes "correct" you over to the other one. My own sister ended up at the wrong house once, after following her phone's directions! USPS knows what they are doing, but packages delivered by other services sometimes just don't show up. Delivery drivers are constantly confused; we have made a habit of putting long instructions in the order notes about the actual location. Sometimes this even works.

garborg 4y ago
Speaking of USPS knowing what they're doing, their address normalization replaces our city name with the broader "Minneapolis," but multiple delivery services use that normalization without flowing the zip code through to directions lookup (whether a tech issue or driver retyping omission), which results in drivers calling us from another suburb 15 minutes away as the pizza goes cold.