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| ▲ | blahedo 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Funny thing about house numbers: they have their own validation problems. For a while I lived in a building whose house number was of the form 123½ and that was an ongoing source of problems. If it just truncated the ½ that was basically fine (the house at 123 didn't have apartment numbers and the postal workers would deliver it correctly) but validating in online forms (twenty-ish years ago) was a challenge. If they ran any validation at all they'd reject the ½, but it was a crapshoot whether which of "123-1/2" or "123 1/2" would work, or sometimes neither one. The USPS's official recommendation at the time was to enter it as "123 1 2 N Streetname" which usually validated but looked so odd it was my last choice (and some validators rejected the "three numbers" format too). I don't think I ever tried "123.5", actually. |
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| ▲ | crooked-v 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Around here, there used to be addresses like "0100 SW Whatever Ave" that were distinct from "100 SW Whatever Ave". And we've still got various places that have, for example, "NW 21st Avenue" and "NW 21st Place" as a simple workaround for a not-entirely-regular street grid optimized for foot navigation. | |
| ▲ | kmoser 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 123 + 0.5? |
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| ▲ | jjmarr 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| At American gas stations, if you have a Canadian credit card, you type in 00000 because Canadians don't have ZIP codes. |
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| ▲ | poizan42 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are we sure they don't actually validate against a more generic postal code field? Then again some countries have letters in their postcodes (the UK comes to mind), so that might be a problem anyways. | | |
| ▲ | epcoa 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Canada has letters in postal codes.
That’s the issue the GP is referring to, since US gas stations invariably just have a simple 5 numeric digit input for “zip” code. |
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| ▲ | cruffle_duffle 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| There is so many ways to write your address I always assume it it’s just the house number as well. In fact I vaguely remember that being a specific field when interacting with some old payment gateway. |