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Put the zip code first
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Re: Put the zip code first
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obviously put country first, then whatever the equivalent of a ZIP code is second. In the UK, a post code gets you down to around 15-16 delivery addresses on average. No-one there really _ever_ needs to type an address.
“Obviously” didn’t read the article. Not having to pick the country is literally the premise! “I type 90210. You now know I'm in Beverly Hills, California, United States. You didn't need me to tell you that. You didn't need a dropdown. You didn't need me to scroll past Turkmenistan.”
The author seems to have either misunderstood the API they're referencing or are assuming US only addresses. The specific endpoint they're calling seems to be for US specific zip codes.
The point stands that this doesn't "just work" for global services.
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#73So I typed my zip code and got Winsconsin, and couldn't change the country to Greece, which is what my zip code actually is for. Proposing UX improvements is great, but please don't forget the other 95% of the planet.
Agreed. I suppose they could lookup based on your IP to pre-select a country (which you can still override if you need to aka VPNs and ordering from a different country), and based on that then ask for a postcode.
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#74The Dutch zipcode and the house number are unique. So, to mail something to the Netherlands anywhere from the world, it is enough to write something like: NL 1072CT 4.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Legal address doesn't matter for mail, and all of this stuff is about mail/shipping. This includes billing addresses. I would have assumed that you knew that. I know people whose ZIP code belongs to a neighboring town (because mail works that way) and it basically becomes their de-facto address.
Some areas have duplicate, or very similar street names (ie, 'ave' vs. 'street') I don't think its that much of an ask that a website lets you enter your address correctly
Yeah it should auto fill but not stop you from changing it, best experience 98% of the time.
I just looked it up and apparently there's some cases of zip codes that do go across state lines too, but it's rare.
Re: Put the zip code first
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Legal address doesn't matter for mail, and all of this stuff is about mail/shipping. This includes billing addresses. I would have assumed that you knew that. I know people whose ZIP code belongs to a neighboring town (because mail works that way) and it basically becomes their de-facto address.
Some areas have duplicate, or very similar street names (ie, 'ave' vs. 'street') I don't think its that much of an ask that a website lets you enter your address correctly
Street name isn’t auto completed here…
Re: Put the zip code first
#77Fun facts: There are zip codes that map to more than one city. There are zip codes that map to more than one state . (42223)
And as others are pointing out, there are zip codes which appear across multiple countries.
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#78> From those 5 characters you can determine the city, the state, and the country False. Many zip codes include more than one city, and some even cross multiple states. And you can't always tell the difference between codes from different countries. Now you're not just instantly filling the rest of the form, you're implementing fancy multi-country filtering logic, editable drop downs, etc. Given the obvious incompeten…
yeah - I do think zip first to bring matching things to the top of your other dropdowns and lookup results (not filter, just prioritize) is almost certainly a good idea, but it's very much not an always-match.
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#79It's impressive someone went to the trouble of putting together this angry dreck, and completely ignoring the fact that ZIP codes often span multiple cities/towns, which not only completely invalidates the author's premise, it would populate the fields with wrong information that would have to be manually corrected later.
Re: Put the zip code first
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Obviously” didn’t read the article. Not having to pick the country is literally the premise! “I type 90210. You now know I'm in Beverly Hills, California, United States. You didn't need me to tell you that. You didn't need a dropdown. You didn't need me to scroll past Turkmenistan.”
"Obviously" the article is wrong, as pointed out by the grandparent of your comment (and several others in the comments). I won't violate the site guidelines by suggesting you didn't read it.
I did read it.