Ordered something that was gonna take a week to get here, and today it was supposed to arrive.
My package wasn’t here though; it turns out I forgot to put in the last number of my address on the shipping info and now it’s been sent back because it was a non-existent address :'( I also have to figure out what company I need to contact next week to update the delivery address for since USPS didn’t directly handle the package entirely. Sad day and mild inconveniences all around
There are ways to verify addresses exist and while an unknown address is possible, it should be extra work for the user to enter such an address such that it isn’t the browser autofilling to blame.
These databases are used for calculating taxes since someone on one side of the street can have a different tax rate than their neighbor on the other side of the street.
As a customer I hate those “smart” address form as they don’t accept my real house number but I need to put the generic one and hope the delivery guy is smart enough to read notes