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by iudqnolq 1174 days ago
I learned recently that a common option for address verification is to concatenate all the numbers and compare that, disregarding all the words.
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"Please fill out the STATE" is the bane for anyone who orders from the States, along with ZIP codes. Thankfully 90210 works most of the time.
And the UK's belief an entire street address always fits into a single short line is a bane for many foreigners. Every country seems to think they're the norm.