20 years of online shopping and a whole industry excited to collect data and autofill and address checking functions STILL mess up apartments.
The system is set up to work well with houses, but there is no consensus on if "apartment/suite" should be a separate field or not... and it's also still often rendered wrong, and makes bad suggestions such as "correcting"
123ABC to 123Abc
Granted when I worked in database design this was my "thing" so I'm hypercritical ... but still.
I get personally offended because I suspect that it's some kind of American suburban-centric mentality that makes apartments an afterthought.
The correct answer is that "apartment suite" should be a separate field NOT tacked on to the street address, but in most renderings it should be on the same line with a comma.
And you need to deftly separate this information if the user tries to enter it in the address line.
ANYWAY.
@futurebird I haven't had this problem in the past 2 years, but the occasional site that does not offer DC as a state. Or insist that the state is “Washington DC”. Nope, Washington is the city, DC is the state. I remember once contacting support and they said to just enter Washington as the state.
Now you have me on a roll. How about asking for zip code first so city and state can be automated. I realize that sometimes the city will be wrong but allow the person to fix it.
I have seen sites that ask for zip first! It's very convenient. Unfortunately, I can't recall any that allow the city to be overridden (not that I ever need to), although since I put in the street address already, maybe they can always figure it out (or maybe they just think they can).
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