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> USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities. Tangential comment: It amazes me the number of places in the US that
by mattpallissard 3y ago
> USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities.
Tangential comment: It amazes me the number of places in the US that won't ship via USPS. In rural places it's literally the only game in town. Same thing goes with places that won't ship to PO boxes. Some places don't have mail delivery, every home gets a PO box. Oh and that messes with address validation on a lot of forms, because most places look up whether or not a house is in USPS's database.
Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating.
- lesuorac 3y ago> Shipping and address validation are a few of those rare things, like names, where software folks shouldn't even bother validating. I dunno. I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Typically I just see it adding the last 4 of a zipcode but I mean one could mispell an address as well as addresses for a permitted structure should be enumeratable.
- mattpallissard 3y ago> I think the common practice of offer a "corrected" name but allow them to override with the entered one is pretty fair. Yeah, I'd agree that's pretty sane behavior. But as someone with one of those rural addresses I can say that most of the time you're not able to override it.
- pests 3y agoI forget where but I was once trapped in software hell where it would autocorrect my address to a correct-looking address but actually was a different structure on the property. You had to submit the corrected version. Phone support couldn't help and just redirected me back online. It was a mess.