[tomp]

This.

This is particularly terrible for addresses. The only acceptable solution (that nobody uses) is as follows: allow FREEFORM addresses. Like, I'm OK with the website or the server doing some post-hoc validation, and suggesting to the user "This address doesn't seem right, are you sure it is correct?" But the amount of time I have to enter "county" (or whatever) for my London address (and sometimes it's Greater London, other times just London, or probably something else as well...) is ridiculous, doubly so because mail in the UK arrives without problems with little more than just a postcode.