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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 08:22:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Things developers believe about shipping addresses:

   - Addresses worldwide look like yours.
   - Addresses have any kind of standard format whatsoever.

   I have been eagerly waiting for a parcel for weeks. Now I found out it had been returned to the sender in Europe, because half of the address lines didn't make it into the shipping order.

   My address looks like this

   Flat N, XX/F, Tower YY, Some Residential Complex
   Z Some Street, A District
   Hong Kong

   The address the shipping company captured was:

   Flat N
   Z Some Street
   A District
   Hong Kong

   That matches two residential complexes , a shopping mall, a management office and a bunch of street-level shops, of which one residential complex has 600 flats N, the other, I don't know, maybe 100 flats N.

   The seller kindly shipped it again and this time I noticed the fragmentary address in the mail from the shipping company. I hope it can be updated so that I'll get my precious goods.

   I was wondering why it was taking weeks when it was supposedly by air.

   Also, tracking just said "left country of origin" for three weeks, nothing more.

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 13:44:22 EDT lnxw48a1

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      In the US, companies use #USPS's own address filtering program, which has its own errors.
      
      (Examples include State Route X replaced with US Highway X ... which doesn't sound bad, but US Highway X is halfway across the country, so occasionally an item cannot be delivered.)
      
      (For those outside the USA, USPS = US Postal Service. There's also a package shipping company called UPS that is not owned by the US government.)