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conulyOnce, many years ago now, I filled in a form that called for my zip code first and then filled out the city and state based on that.
And ever since then I've actively resented having to find my state on a drop down menu, like, even more than I already did. Inevitably, if I try typing I go "NY" to find out that all states are done in full, or else I go "NE" to find out that they're all abbreviated.
Anyway, my point is obvious. If you have any pull at all, ever, encourage whoever makes these forms wherever they make them to populate the state and city from the zip code. It is vastly superior, and I hope that form maker got a bonus for that stroke of brilliance.
And ever since then I've actively resented having to find my state on a drop down menu, like, even more than I already did. Inevitably, if I try typing I go "NY" to find out that all states are done in full, or else I go "NE" to find out that they're all abbreviated.
Anyway, my point is obvious. If you have any pull at all, ever, encourage whoever makes these forms wherever they make them to populate the state and city from the zip code. It is vastly superior, and I hope that form maker got a bonus for that stroke of brilliance.
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Date: 2023-04-25 04:08 pm (UTC)The poster had looked up the "nearest store" at home and got an answer that wasn't all that near. On a whim, he tried it from work and got a much closer store.
After some investigation, it was discovered that the programmer for the app thought that *numerically* adjacent zip codes were *geographically* adjacent.
Not even close. When assigning a new zip code (usually because the area has grown) the area that gets the new code gets the next available zip code for the state. So 97201 could be next to 97299 or even 97999